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He looked as if he thought this a waste of his tily and laid it before her As he laid them out, it struck him that she studied thelanced up from the outer corner of his eye to hers, and noticed that all she did was look at the name at the bottom of the letter, and then put the enclosure aside without further cere into the ave in detail reasons why they believed themselves well qualified for a certain post She came to the final one, and put it doith the rest

Then the lady said that in her opinion it would be best to get as ive us a wider choice What do you think, Mr Nyttleton?' It seereater number than those they already had would scarcely be necessary, and if they waited forit, that some of those they now could command would possibly not be available

'Never mind, ill run that risk,' said Miss Aldclyffe 'Let the advertisement be inserted once more, and then ill certainly settle the matter' Mr Nyttleton bowed, and seele woman, and one who till so very recently had never concerned herself with business of any kind, a very meddlesome client But she was rich, and handsoeet tired of this,' and he parted from her without a sentiment which could mar his habitual blandness

The two ladies then proceeded ard Dis Pall Mall on foot, where in place of the usual well-dressed clubbists--rubicund with alcohol--were to be seen, in linen pinafores, flocks of house-painters pallid from white lead When they had reached the Green Park, Cytherea proposed that they should sit dohile under the young elrowl of Piccadilly on their left hand --the ht: before the forth with a ainst a livid Lambeth sky

Miss Aldclyffe still carried in her hand a copy of the newspaper, and while Cytherea had been interesting herself in the picture around, glanced again at the advertisement