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When Miss Isabella Tod had read the letter, there was a sole, e, a carpet like the best at Eglintoun, a Hussar officer,

and two footh is hich the intelligence

affected thereed, that the Doctor's

legacy had every sy equal to what it was at first expected

to be, namely, twenty thousand pounds;--a sum which, by some occult or

recondite moral influence of the Lottery, is the common maximum, in

popular estimation, of any extraordinary and indefinite windfall of

fortune Miss Becky Glibbans, from the purest ht be able to carry her full cup with

a steady hand; and the Rev Mr Snodgrass, that so co effect by any lighter talk,

requested Mr Micklewham to read his letter frole, DD, to Mr Micklewham, Schoolmaster and

Session-Clerk of Garnock

LONDON

DEAR SIR--I have written by the post that will take this to hand, a

letter to Banker M---y, at Irvine, concerning some small matters of money

that I may stand in need of his opinion anent; and as there is a prospect

now of a settleacy business, I wish you to take a step

over to the banker, and he will give you ten pounds, which you will

ad note in the plate on