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From Little Britain I went, with my check in my pocket, to Miss

Skiffins's brother, the accountant; and Miss Skiffins's brother, the

accountant, going straight to Clarriker's and bringing Clarriker to e I had done, and the only coreat expectations

Clarriker infor me on that occasion that the affairs of the House

were steadily progressing, that he would now be able to establish a

small branch-house in the East which was much wanted for the extension

of the business, and that Herbert in his new partnership capacity would

go out and take charge of it, I found that I must have prepared for

a separation froh my own affairs had been more

settled And now, indeed, I felt as ifits

hold, and I should soon be driving with the winds and waves

But there was recompense in the joy hich Herbert would coining that he told

me no news, and would sketch airy pictures of hihts, and ofout to join

the up the

Nile and seeing wonders Without being sanguine as to ht plans, I felt that Herbert's as clearing fast, and