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A CHRISTMAS WEDDING.
"I never thought to see daughter of mine wedded from the house of a neighbour," said the Master Builder (whose title yet clung to him, albeit there was something of mockery in the sound), heaving a sigh as he looked into the happy face of his child.

"But a homeless man must needs do the best he can; and our good friends have won the right to play the part of kinsfolk towards us both." "Indeed--indeed they have, dear father," answered Gertrude; "thou canst not think how happy I have been here in this sweet cottage, nor what a home it has been to us all these weeks.

I shall be almost loth to leave it on the morrow--at least I should be, were it not for the great happiness coming into my life.

But the home to which Reuben will take me must be even dearer than this.