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"We will turn over ood-natured s, that I have laid by

for years One gets rusty in this part of the country, you know Not

you, Casaubon; you stick to your studies; but et

underuard

against indolence I was too indolent, you know: else I ht have

been anywhere at one time"

"That is a seasonable admonition," said Mr Casaubon; "but noill

pass on to the house, lest the young ladies should be tired of

standing"

When their backs were turned, young Ladislaw sat down to go on with his

sketching, and as he did so his face broke into an expression of

a, till at last he threw

back his head and laughed aloud Partly it was the reception of his

own artistic production that tickled hirave cousin as the lover of that girl; and partly Mr Brooke's

definition of the place he ht have held but for the impediment of

indolence Mr Will Ladislaw's sense of the ludicrous lit up his

features very agreeably: it was the pure enjoy and self-exaltation

"What is your nephew going to do with himself, Casaubon?" said Mr

Brooke, as they went on