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"Very little beside her name"

"Ah! she told you her name, then?"

"Yes, she told me her name"

"Well, cousin?"

"Well, sir?" We had both risen, and now fronted each other

across the anvil, Sir Maurice debonair and sloomy

"Come," said I at last, "let us understand each other once for

all You tell me that you have always looked upon races--I never was You have

deceived yourself into believing that because I was his ward that

alone aug the heir; it never did

He saw me as seldom as possible, and, if he ever troubled his

head about either of us, it would seem that he favored you I

tell you I never was your rival in the past, and never shall be

in the future"

"Meaning, cousin?"

"Meaning, sir, in regard to either the legacy or the Lady Sophia

Sefton I was never fond enough of money, to marry for it I

have never seen this lady, nor do I propose to, thus, so far as I