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What Necessity Knows by Lily Dougall
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conclusion: "Harold has brought the best grease for the wheels."

She had her way therefore, and in course of time the ladies, and as many
of the children as could be crowded into the carriage, thus commenced
the last stage of their journey. The others were driven on by Trenholme.
As for the little boys, "a good run behind," their mother said, was just
what they needed to warm them up.

They began running behind, but soon ran in front, which rather confused
Mrs. Rexford's ideas of order, but still the carriage lumbered on.




CHAPTER XII.


Captain Rexford had no fortune with his second wife; and their children
numbered seven daughters and three sons. It was natural that the
expenses of so large a family should have proved too much for a slender
income in an English town where a certain style of living had been
deemed a necessity. When, further, a mercantile disaster had swept away
the larger part of this income, the anxious parents had felt that there
was nothing left for their children but a choice between degrading
dependence on the bounty of others and emigration. From the new start in
life which the latter course would give they had large hopes.
Accordingly, they gathered together all that they had, and, with a loan
from a richer relative, purchased a house and farm in a locality where
they were told their children would not wholly lack educational
opportunities or society. This move of theirs was heroic, but whether
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