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"But Ladislaon't be shipped off like a head of cattle, my dear

fellow; Ladislaw has his ideas It's my opinion that if he were to

part from me to-morrow, you'd only hear theand drawing up docuitator--an agitator, you know"

"Agitator!" said Sir Ja that the

syllables of this word properly repeated were a sufficient exposure of

its hatefulness

"But be reasonable, Chettao to Celia as soon as possible She can stay under your roof,

and in the s uns in a hurry, you know Standish will keep our

counsel, and the neill be old before it's knoenty things , you know"

"Then I a?"

"Decline, Chettam?--no--I didn't say decline But I really don't see

what I could do Ladislaw is a gentlelad to hear it!" said Sir Jaet himself a little "I am sure Casaubon was not"

"Well, it would have been worse if he had ain at all, you know"

"I don't know that," said Sir James "It would have been less

indelicate"

"One of poor Casaubon's freaks! That attack upset his brain a little

It all goes for nothing She doesn't _want_ to marry Ladislaw"

"But this codicil is framed so as to make everybody believe that she

did I don't believe anything of the sort about Dorothea," said Sir

Jaly, "but I suspect Ladislaw I tell you frankly,