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The request was one entirely in sympathy with the mood and the previous

conversation, andfully satisfied the claims of social life, she could with

courtesy leave her visitor's further entertainular domestic cares To her the visit had appeared to

be one of such general interest, that she never suspected any motive

beneath or beyond the friendliness it implied Yet the moment the

parlour-door had been shut, Mrs Gordon lifted Katharine's face between

her palms, and said,-"Faith, child, I as I

have listened to for your sake Do you knoho sent me here?"

"I think, madam, Captain Hyde"

"Psha! Why don't you blush, and stammer, and lie about it? 'I think,

ht Dutch accent "'Tis

to be seen,or two Now, Captain Hyde

wishes to see you; when can you oblige him so much?"

"I know not To come to Madam Semple's is forbidden me by my father"

"It is on my account I protest your father is very uncivil"

"Madao, and he thinks it