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"How long will you be in London?"

"I cannot say We are invited to Stanhope Castle, but I don't want to go there We stayed with the Stanhopes a e first cah of the about theious We had prayers night and , and a prayer before and after every ood books, and the Honorable Misses Stanhope sew for the poor old wo ones They work harder than anyone I ever knew, and they call it 'ihtwoht after they had sung soan with 'My Little Brown Rose'--you know they all adore the negro--and little by little I dropped into the funniest coon songs I knew, and oh how they laughed! Even the old lord stroked his knees and laughed out loud, while the young ladies laughed into their handkerchiefs Lady Stanhope was the only one who co them; and she looked at irls' fun It only made me the merrier So I tried to show them a cake walk, but the old lord rose then and said 'I must be tired, and they would excuse e him Basil was at a workman's concert, and when he came home I think there were some advices and remonstrances, but Basil never told lad when I went away, and I don't wish to go to the Castle--and I won't go either"

"But if Basil wishes to go----"

"He can go alone I rather think Fred Mostyn will be here in a few days, and he will take h, Ethel, so you need not look so shocked Why do you not ask uest there I have no right to ask you"

"I am sure if you told Squire Rawdon how fond you are of me, and how lonely I am, he would tell you to send for me"

"I do not believe he would He has old-fashioned ideas about newly married people He would hardly think it possible that you would be willing to go anywhere without Basil--yet"