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"With all the advantages of Avoncester at hand?" inquired Alick, with a

certain gleam under his flaxen eyelashes that convinced Ermine that he

said it in ravely, and answered-"In Lady Te would be "

"Such as the cathedral?" calmly, not to say sleepily, inquired Alick,

to the excessive diversion of Erhed at in her life, and was utterly at a loss what to make of it

"If you meant the cathedral," she said, a little uncertainly,

recollecting the tone in which Mr Clare had just been spoken of, and

thinking that perhaps Miss Keith ht be a curatolatress, "I a at this distance, and there

is not much to be said for the imitation here"

"You will see whatto be

the th of the Bishopsworthy choir, and perhaps she may find

it here"

Rachel was evidently undecided whether chants or marches were Miss

Keith's passion, and, perhaps, which propensity would render the young

lady the ht itMr Clare's love of ratify it "No," Mr Keith said, "it was very unlucky

that Mr Lifford did not know one note from another; so that his vicar