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"He ought to be dead," said Grace

"Yes, it would be better for her than to hear anything else of hi of his own, so there would have been a long waiting, but his

father and brother would not hear of it, and accused us of entrapping

hiood, and ere very well off then My father had a good private fortune besides

the Rectory at Beauchamp; and Lady Alison, who had been like a ht that the prospect was good

enough, and I believe got into a great scrape with her fa

promoted the affair"

"Your squire's wife?"

"Yes, and Julia and Erhters I was too young; but as long as she lived ere all like

one fahtful

weeks!"

"Of your sister's illness? It ! No one thought of her living The doctors

said the injury was too extensive to leave any power of rallying; but

she was young and strong, and did not die in the torture, though people

said that such an existence as re back to it I think ht

suffer less, and Julia stayed on and on, thinking each day would be the

last, till Dr Long could not spare her any longer; and then Lady