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This was a not infrequent procedure with Mr Vincy--to be rash in

jovial assent, and on beco subsequently conscious that he had been

rash, to e the offensive retractation However,

Mrs Vincy, who never willingly opposed her husband, lost no ti Rosa soave a

certain turn of her graceful neck, of which only long experience could

teach you that it meant perfect obstinacy

"What do you say, my dear?" said her mother, with affectionate

deference

"Papa does notof the kind," said Rosamond, quite calmly

"He has always said that he wished ate It is seven weeks now since papa gave his

consent And I hope we shall have Mrs Bretton's house"

"Well, e your papa You always do

et damask, Sadler's is the

place--far better than Hopkins's Mrs Bretton's is very large, though:

I should love you to have such a house; but it will take a great deal

of furniture--carpeting and everything, besides plate and glass And

you hear, your papa says he will give no ate expects it?"

"You cannot iine that I should ask him, mamma Of course he

understands his own affairs"

"But he ht of

your having a pretty legacy as well as Fred;--and now everything is so

dreadful--there's no pleasure in thinking of anything, with that poor

boy disappointed as he is"

"That has nothing to do with oing up-stairs to take this work to Miss Morgan: she

does the open heht do so is exquisite; it is the nicest thing I

know about Mary I should so like to have alltie her papa ell

founded Apart fro as he was, had as little of his oay as if he had been a

prime minister: the force of circumstances was easily tooflorid men; and the circumstance

called Rosamond was particularly forcible by means of that mild

persistence which, as we know, enables a white soft living substance to