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Again papa was silent

"Promise me, papa, that you will consent to ish We shall

never give each other up; and you know that you have always objected to

long courtships and late ency of this kind, till Mr Vincy said,

"Well, well, child, he must write to me first before I can answer

hiained her point

Mr Vincy's answer consisted chiefly in a deate should

insure his life--a dehtfully reassuring idea supposing that Lydgate died, but in the

idea However, it seee; and the necessary

purchases went on with much spirit Not without prudential

considerations, however A bride (who is going to visit at a

baronet's) must have a few first-rate pocket-handkerchiefs; but beyond

the absolutely necessary half-dozen, Rosahest style of e that his suht hundred pounds had been considerably

reduced since he had come to Middlemarch, restrained his inclination

for some plate of an old pattern which was shown to hi to buy forks and spoons He

was too proud to act as if he presupposed that Mr Vincy would advance