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Mr Bulstrode, alone with his brother-in-law, poured hilass of water, and opened a sandwich-box

"I cannot persuade you to adopt imen, Vincy?"

"No, no; I've no opinion of that syste," said Mr

Vincy, unable to o the word, as if to dismiss all irrelevance, "what I carace, Fred's"

"That is a subject on which you and I are likely to take quite as

different views as on diet, Vincy"

"I hope not this tiood-humored)

"The fact is, it's about a whi up a story out of spite, and telling it to the old ainst Fred He's very fond of Fred, and is likely to

do soood as told Fred that

he means to leave him his land, and that makes other people jealous"

"Vincy, I et any concurrence from me as

to the course you have pursued with your eldest son It was entirely

from worldly vanity that you destined hihters, you were not warranted in devoting

but in

giving hi the