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"I beg your pardon,I told you she had

escaped from her friends, which was strictly true"

"Then how the demon had you the impudence to come up and carry her off

in that style? I certainly had a better right to her than you--the right

of discovery; and I shall call upon you to deliver her up!"

"If she belonged to hed Ormiston; "but she is at present the property of Sir

Norsley, and to him you must apply"

"Ah! His inamorata, in she? Well, I ht to know her na a modern Damon and Pythias"

"Probably I should, my lord, only Sir Norman, unfortunately, does not

know himself"

The earl's countenance looked so utterly blank at this announcement,

that Ormiston was forced to throw in a word of explanation

"I mean to say,froether

hopeless, although they have ht for the first time"

"A rapid passion Where have you left her, Ormiston?"

"In her own house,quietly to

himself

"Where is that?"

"About a dozen yards from where I stood when you called me"