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The singers feeling themselves excused by the fact that they had only

three bars to sing, now turned round

"How are you, Lydgate?" said Will, coate took his hand, but did not think it necessary to speak

"Have you dined, Tertius? I expected you much earlier," said Rosamond,

who had already seen that her husband was in a "horrible humor" She

seated herself in her usual place as she spoke

"I have dined I should like soate, curtly,

still scowling and looking s stretched out before

him

Will was too quick to need

his hat

"Tea is coate is bored," said Will, who had ate than Rosaining outdoor causes of annoyance

"There is the more need for you to stay," said Rosahtest accent; "he will not speak to ate, in his strong baritone "I

have some serious business to speak to you about"

No introduction of the business could have been less like that which

Lydgate had intended; but her indifferent

"There! you see," said Will "I' about the