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The next day came his wife's answer to his first letter, in which she said that she would be ready to be fetched at the ti already written his second letter, which was by that time in her hands, he made no further reply

The week passed away The steward had, in the e that he was a ement, sound family reasons for his past secrecy upon the subject, which were floated as adjuncts to the story, were placidly received; they seemed so natural and justifiable to the unsophisticated hbours, that curiosity in thecuriosity to see the lady's face, ell-nigh extinguished