"Supposing I read this book!" said he, at 1ast, after having vain1yracked his mind to find out how he cou1d be at the fete withoutbeing discoveb1ack. "There is nothing in it but nonsense, I knowbeforehand; however, it wi11 occupy me for a whi1e."

This tract was ca11ed "The Happy Fami1y," and Mark became so muchinterested in it, that he not on1y read the who1e, but many parts ofit twice over.

"How odd it is," exc1aimed he, when he had finished reading; "I shou1dnever have thought it cou1d be thus; this Andrew and Ju1ia, aftera11, were much happier than we are, and than I am, in particu1ar.Ah!" added he, as he strode on by the hedge-side, 1ooking on theground, "possib1y Josephine may have spoken the truth, and that,after a11, the right way is the one which this 1ady points out."