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"Well, make up, make up," said Mr Standish, jocosely; "you see the

ed fellows early the day"

Mr Chichely shook his head withto

incur the certainty of being accepted by the woman he would choose

The Miss Vincy who had the honor of being Mr Chichely's ideal was of

course not present; for Mr Brooke, always objecting to go too far,

would not have chosen that his nieces should hter of a

Middlemarch manufacturer, unless it were on a public occasion The

feminine part of the company included none whom Lady Chettam or Mrs

Cadwallader could object to; for Mrs Renfrew, the colonel's as

not only unexceptionable in point of breeding, but also interesting on

the ground of her complaint, which puzzled the doctors, and seemed

clearly a case wherein the fulness of professional knowledge ht need

the supplement of quackery Lady Chettam, who attributed her own

remarkable health to home-made bitters united with constant ination into Mrs

Renfrew's account of sy futility in her

case of all, strengthening o,to Mrs Cadwallader reflectively,

when Mrs Renfrew's attention was called away

"It strengthens the disease," said the Rector's wife, much too

well-born not to be an a depends on the