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broadside ready for any boat that attempted to stop you"

"Oh, my lady, that is the completest nonsense!"

"Say 'cousin Arabella,' if you please Has not grandht to have been your wife? It was all arranged

years ago, sir You have disappointed grandmother; as for me, I have

consoled myself with Sir Thoh Dick was entirely out of the

secret of the reed upon it I don't knohat Will thinks of a younger son like Dick choosing for hi courtesy, and he could not

help looking with soht have been his

wife The best of men, and the best of husbands, are liable to speculate

a little under such circumstances, and in fancy to put themselves into a

position they have probably no wish in reality to fill She noticed his

air of consideration; and, with a toss of her handsome head, she spread

out all her finery "You see," she said, "I a show" She wore a white poudesoy gown, eh-heeled satin slippers, and a head-dress of

wonderful workmanship "For I have been at a concert of music, cousin

Dick, and heard two overtures of Mr Handel's and a sonata by Corella,

done by the very best hands"