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He flushed angrily, but answered with much of the same desire to annoy, "I suppose it was I felt it very irl in the city There are none left like her"

"It will be a good thing for New York if that is the case I'm not one that wants the city to myself, but I can spare Dora STANHOPE, and feel the better for it"

"The most beautiful of God's creatures!"

"You've surely lost your sight or your judg, brown eyes You can pick her sort up by the thousand in any large city And a wandering-hearted, giddy creature, too, that will spread as she goes, no doubt I'm sorry for Basil Stanhope, he didn't deserve such a fate"

"Indeed, he did not! It is beyond ood for him"

"I've always heard that affliction is the surest way to heaven Dora will lead him that road, and it will be more sure than pleasant Poor fellow! He'll soon be as ready to curse his wedding-day as Job was to curse his birthday A costly wife she will be to keep, andof her But if you ca, for I don't find it any great entertainment"

"I came to talk to you about Squire Rawdon"

"What about the Squire? Keep it in your mind that he and I were sweethearts ere children I haven't forgotten that fact"

"You knodon Court is ed to me?"

"I've heard you say so--e in Septeet twice yes, three times--the interest for my money in American securities"

"How do you know they are securities?"

"Bryce Denning has put ood things can coht you"

"Fool! Madam, I allow no one to call me a fool, especially without reason"

"Reason, indeed! What reason was there in your dillydallying after Dora Denning when she was engaged, and then host for her after she isoffers you in exchange for a grand English manor, take them, and then if I called you not fool before, I will call you fool in your teeth twice over, and ood for you! Aye, I could call you a worse name when I think of the old Squire--he's two years older than I ao to?"