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"No wonder; Edas abroad, all connexion broken"

"I wrote to Beaucha, and I could only wait till

my chief's time should be up You knoas cut short, and how

the care of the poor littledetained ht you in vain in town I went home, and found

my brother lonely and dispirited He has lost his son, his daughters are

married, and he and I are all the brothers left out of the six! He was

urgent that I should come and live with him and marry I told him I

would, with all my heart, when I had found you, and he saas too

much in earnest to be opposed Then I went to Beaucha about any one I tried to find out your sister and Dr Long, but

heard they were gone to Belfast"

"Yes, they lost a good deal in the crash, and did not like retrenching

ahbours, so they went to Ireland, and there they have a

flourishing practice"

"I thought ; "only I had

first to settle Lady Teoverness! Last night I had nearly opened, on another false scent;

I fell in with a description that I could have sas yours, of the

heather behind the parsonage I made a note of the publisher in case all

else had failed"

"I'lad you knew the scent of the thyme!"