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"By swaggering could I never thrive,

For the rain it raineth every day

--Twelfth Night

The transactions referred to by Caleb Garth as having gone forward

between Mr Bulstrode and Mr Joshua Rigg Featherstone concerning the

land attached to Stone Court, had occasioned the interchange of a

letter or two between these personages

Who shall tell what ? If it happens to

have been cut in stone, though it lie face down-es on a

forsaken beach, or "rest quietly under the dru us into the secret of usurpations and

other scandals gossiped about long eallery Such conditions are often

minutely represented in our petty lifetienerations of clowns may come by curious little links

of effect under the eyes of a scholar, through whose labors it ions, so a bit of ink

and paper which has long been an innocent wrapping or stop-gap may at

last be laid open under the one pair of eyes which have knowledge

enough to turn it into the opening of a catastrophe To Uriel watching

the progress of planetary history from the sun, the one result would be

just as