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'What is the name of your man?' said Miss Aldclyffe

'His nae; 'what is his nalanced towards Cytherea, as getting red and pale by turns She looked ily at Miss Aldclyffe

'The na at her letter in turn; 'is, I think--yes--AEneas Manston' 5 SEPTEMBER THE THIRD The nextbut one was appointed for the interviehich were to be at the lawyer's offices Mr Nyttleton and Mr Tayling were both in town for the day, and the candidates were admitted one by one into a private roo her veil down

The lawyer had, in his letters to the selected number, timed each candidate at an interval of ten or fifteenThey were shown in as they arrived, and had short conversations with Mr Nyttleton--terse, and to the point

Miss Aldclyffe neither ht have been supposed that she was quite unmindful of it, had it not been for as revealed by a keen penetration of the veil covering her countenance--the rays froht black eyes, directed towards the lawyer and his interlocutor

Springrove came fifth; Manston seventh When the examination of all was ended, and the last ain as at the forht she personally preferred 'I still think the fifth we spoke to, Springrove, the man whose letter I pounced upon at first, to be by far the best qualified, in short, enerally' 'I am sorry to say that I differ from you; I lean to my first notion still--that Mr--Mr Manston is , and even specifically; I think he would suit -run' Mr Nyttleton looked out of theat the whitened wall of the court

'Of course, madam, your opinion may be perfectly sound and reliable; a sort of instinct, I know, often leads ladies by a short cut to conclusions truer than those come to byexperience I must say I shouldn't recommend him' 'Why, pray?' 'Well, let us look first at his letter of answer to the advertisement He didn't reply till the last insertion; that's one thing His letter is bold and frank in tone, so bold and frank that the second thought after reading it is that not honesty, but unscrupulousness of conscience dictated it It is written in an indifferentus in his stateht et it only as a lect no opportunity that caht, Mr Nyttleton, but I don't quite see the grounds of your reasoning' 'He has been, as you perceive, almost entirely used to the office duties of a city architect, the experience we don't want You want a man whose acquaintance with rural landed properties is more practical and closer--somebody who, if he has not filled exactly such an office before, has lived a country life, knows the ins and outs of country tenancies, building, far of them all' 'Yes; he may be--your opinion, Miss Aldclyffe, is worth more than mine in that matter And more than you say, he is a man of parts --his brain poould soon enable him to master details and fit him for the post, I don't much doubt that But to speak clearly' (here his words started off at a jog-trot) 'I wouldn't run the risk of placing the ement of an estate of mine in his hands on any account whatever There, that's flat and plain, madam' 'But, definitely,' she said, with a show of impatience, 'what is your reason?' 'He is a voluptuary with activity; which is a very bad form of man --as bad as it is rare' 'Oh Thank you for your explicit state a little and flushing with displeasure