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"Come in? No, madam, no We are simple rustics here in Old Chester; we

must not presume to intrude upon a lady of such fashion as you I fear

that some of us have already presumed too much"--he paused for breath,

but lifted one veined old hand to check her protest--"too ize, and to tell you--" Again he

stopped, panting; "to tell you that I insist that you forbid further

intrusion--at least on the part of randson"

"But," she said, the color hot in her face, "he does not intrude I

don't knohat you mean I--"

"Oh, madam, you are too kind, I am sure you knohat I mean; it is

your excessive kindness that per, I am sure, to a lady so accustomed to the world I will ask

you to forbid those visits Do you hear ravel with his cane "Gad-a-mercy! Do you hear me? You

will forbid his visits!"

"You are not very polite, Mr Old Gentlehtfully

"David!" Helena protested

Benjaure planted in front of