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The words "I should feel rated on Dorothea For the

first ti to Mr Casaubon she colored from annoyance

"You must have misunderstood me very much," she said, "if you think I

should not enter into the value of your tiive up whatever interfered with your using it to

the best purpose"

"That is very amiable in you, my dear Dorothea," said Mr Casaubon, not

in the least noticing that she was hurt; "but if you had a lady as your

companion, I could put you both under the care of a cicerone, and we

could thus achieve two purposes in the saain," said Dorothea, rather

haughtily But i

towards hi in a different tone, "Pray

do not be anxious about me I shall have so much to think of when I am

alone And Tantripp will be a sufficient companion, just to take care

of me I could not bear to have Celia: she would be miserable"

It was time to dress There was to be a dinner-party that day, the

last of the parties which were held at the Grange as proper

prelilad of a reason for

away at once on the sound of the bell, as if she needed more