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"What with the theatre, and the bowling green, and tea in your

su lessons, and the sale of these fine things, you

and Charles must turn a pretty penny! The luck that some folk have! You

were always fortunate, Mary"

Mistress Stagg did not deny the iotten the gift of my Lady Squander's pink alae

"I've laid by a pretty piece of sarcenet of which to make you a capuchin,"

she said proarden,

and sip it there? Peggy," to the black girl holding a salver, "put the

cake and wine on the table in the arbor; then sit here by the , and

call me if any come My dear Deborah, I doubt if I have so much as a

ribbon left by the end of the week The town is that gay! I says to

Mirabell this , says I, 'Lord, my dear, it a'most puts arden door Now, isn't it

cool and pleasant out here? Audrey rapes Yes, they're

very fine, full bunches; it has been a bounteous year"

The grape arbor hugged the house, but beyond it was a pretty, shady,