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"And you don't live at Gateshead?"

"I live at the lodge: the old porter has left"

"Well, and how do they all get on? Tellabout them,

Bessie: but sit down first; and, Bobby, come and sit onover to his rown so very tall, Miss Jane, nor so very stout,"

continued Mrs Leaven "I dare say they've not kept you too well at

school: Miss Reed is the head and shoulders taller than you are;

and Miss Georgiana would iana is handsome, I suppose, Bessie?"

"Very She went up to London last winter with herlord fell in love with her: but

his relations were against the iana made it up to run away; but they were found out

and stopped It was Miss Reed that found them out: I believe she

was envious; and now she and her sister lead a cat and dog life

together; they are always quarrelling--"

"Well, and what of John Reed?"

"Oh, he is not doing so well as his ot--plucked, I think they call it: and then his

uncles wanted him to be a barrister, and study the law: but he is

such a dissipated young man, they will never make much of him, I

think"