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"Everybody" that day did not include Mr Bulstrode, whose health could

not well endure crowds and draughts But Mrs Bulstrode had

particularly wished to have a certain picture--a "Supper at Eue to Guido; and at the last moment before the

day of the sale Mr Bulstrode had called at the office of the

"Pioneer," of which he was now one of the proprietors, to beg of Mr

Ladislaw as a great favor that he would obligingly use his ree of pictures on behalf of Mrs Bulstrode, and judge of the

value of this particular painting--"if," added the scrupulously polite

banker, "attendance at the sale would not interfere with the

arrangements for your departure, which I know is iht have sounded rather satirically in Will's ear if he

had been in a mood to care about such satire It referred to an

understanding entered into many weeks before with the proprietors of

the paper, that he should be at liberty any day he pleased to hand over

the ; since he

wished finally to quit Middleainst the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly

agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve

e secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary In such

states of

towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be