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Rachel's dehed, and said there

was collusion

"Now seriously, Alick, do you think her worth sopoor Rachel is going to give it to?" and she

looked half co to throw it into the sea, I don't see what difference

that would ing to her can bear

a vulgar price"

"Nothing belonging to ravely "You cannot do less than give her what she gave for it,

if you enter on the transaction at all"

"You mean that it would look shabby You see omankind never quite

know the code of the world on suchthat makes codes unnecessary, Bessie," he said

"Ah! I can make allowances It is a cruel stroke I don't wonder you

can't bear to see any one else on her palfrey; above all as a sacrifice

to the landscape painter"

"Then spare s, and send the mare to Bishopsworthy," said

Alick, as usual too careless of the imputation to take the trouble to

rebut it or to be disconcerted

Bessie was hed heartily

"To be sure," she said, "it is past concealone, indeed, to have been taken in to suppose

capital of her 'charitable purposes'"