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`` Thefts , like ivy on a ruin , make the rifts they seem to shade . '' -- C. G. DUFFY . `` August 3d , 7 A. M. `` My Dear Colonel Keith , -- Papa is come , and I have got up so early in the morning that I have nothing to do but to write to you before we go in to Avoncester . Papa and Mr. Beechum came by the six o'clock train , and Lady Temple sent me in the waggonette to meet them . Aunt Ailie would not go , because she was afraid Aunt Ermine would get anxious whilst she was waiting . I saw papa directly , and yet I did not think it could be papa , because you were not there , and he looked quite past me , and I do not think he would have found me or the carriage at all if Mr. Beechum had not known me . And then , I am afraid I was very naughty , but I could not help crying just a little when I found you had not come ; but perhaps Lady Keith may be better , and you may come before I go into court to-day , and then I shall tear up this letter .