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Sir James handed Mrs Cadwallader to the phaeton, and then ju to renounce his ride because of his

friend's unpleasant news--only to ride the faster in soe

Nohy on earth should Mrs Cadwallader have been at all busy about

Miss Brooke's e; and hen one match that she liked to think

she had a hand in was frustrated, should she have straightway contrived

the prelienious plot, any

hide-and-seek course of action, which ht be detected by a careful

telescopic watch? Not at all: a telescope ht have swept the

parishes of Tipton and Freshitt, the whole area visited by Mrs

Cadwallader in her phaeton, without witnessing any interview that could

excite suspicion, or any scene from which she did not return with the

sah natural color In

fact, if that convenient vehicle had existed in the days of the Seven

Sages, one of them would doubtless have re them about in their pony-phaetons Even

with a

interpretations which turn out to be rather coarse; for whereas under a

weak lens youan active voracity

into which other smaller creatures actively play as if they were so

er lens reveals to you certain

tiniest hairlets which make vortices for these victims while the

saits passively at his receipt of custo lens applied to Mrs Cadwallader's

whather the sort of food she