Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Cjrapter Cjjirb. AUNT WEALTHY. Db. Landreth and his party reached Philadelphia in due season, arriving in health and safety, having met with no accident or loss by the way. Mrs. Dinsmore found her father and the family carriage waiting for her and her baby boy at the depot. The others took a hack and drove to the Girard House, where Miss Stanhope, who had been visiting friends in the neighborhood of the city, had appointed to meet them, that they and she might journey westward in company. She was there waiting for them in a private parlor. The meeting was a joyful one to the two ladies, who, though always warmly attached, had now been separated for a number of years. They clasped each other in a long, tender embrace; then Mildred introducedher husband, and exhibited her baby with much pride and delight; Annis, too, for she had quite grown out of Aunt Wealthy's recollection, and had scarce any remembrance of the old lady, except from hearing her spoken of by the other members of the family. The travellers were weary with their jour- ney, and there was much to hear and tell; so the remainder of that day was given up to rest and talk, a part of the latter being on the arrangement of their plans. Mildred proposed that they should take a week or more for rest and shopping, then turn their faces homeward. You must allow some time for sight-seeing, my dear, '' said her husband. It would be a great shame to carry Annis all the way out to Indiana again without having shown her the lions of Philadelphia. Oh, certainly she must see them, said Mildred. You can show them to her while Aunt Wealthy and I are shopping. You intend, then, to shut me out of that business ? How shall I know that you will not be ruining me ?'' My dear, said Mildred, laughi...