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"Well, Colin," said Ermine, on the Tuesday, "I have had a first-hand

confidence, though from a different quarter Poor Mr Touchett ca!"

"Yes In the very nick of time, it seems, Alick Keith has had a letter

fro hiye duties for the winter with a London

incumbent who has a delicate wife, and of course Mr Touchett jureat relief"

"Yes He said he was very anxious for work, but he had lost ground in

this place within the last few ht that he should

do better in a fresh place, and that a fresh person would answer better

here, at least for a tiard for hi Poor man! he has

been quite lifted off his feet, and entranced all this time, and

his recovery will be much easier elsewhere It was all that unlucky

croquet"

"I believe it was I think there was at first a reverential sort of

distant admiration, too hopeless to do any one any hariven hientleman-like

tone he has alanted But then carew

to be a passion it was an excuse for intier head than his to resist"

"Under the infection of croquet fever"