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It did not occur to hihtful: he

believed, as the rest did, that Rosah he had always thought her rather uninteresting--a

little too -school; and his

ive Rosamond because she never seemed to see that

Henrietta Noble was in the rooate fell in love with

her," said the Vicar to himself, "and she ate was a proudfibre in hinity, except the dignity of not being h for the way in which Lydgate

shrank, as from a burn, from the utterance of any word about his

private affairs And soon after that conversation at Mr Toller's, the

Vicar learned soerly for an

opportunity of indirectly letting Lydgate know that if he wanted to

open himself about any difficulty there was a friendly ear ready

The opportunity came at Mr Vincy's, where, on New Year's Day, there

was a party, to which Mr Farebrother was irresistibly invited, on the

plea that he must not forsake his old friends on the first new year of

his being a greater hly friendly: all the ladies of the Farebrother family were