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The next , while at breakfast, he received a little note froht It was a char as her eyes had been when she

looked at hiates'

Drake sent back word that he would be delighted to coht

o'clock presented hileford was, like Northgate, detained in London by official business

He was a very fine specih well

advanced in years, still extre--the whole family was

favored in that way--and remarkably well preserved His hair hite,

but his eyes were bright and his cheeks ruddy, and, when free fro outy leford,

and extreh he had fallen in love with a pretty little American, perhaps he

would not have married her but for the little tiff with Drake; but that

little tiff had just turned the scale, and, though he had taken the step

in a retted it; for he was very fond and