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"If you have been a simpleton, does that make him an honest man?" said

Mr Grey, impatiently

"No," said Rachel, "but--"

"What?"

"My credulity , at

last, the words to serve the idea

"Look you here, Rachel," said Mr Grey, constraining hihter; "it does not siirl who has let herself be taken in by a

sharper That would be noa sixpence to a fellow that

tells ot it sewn up in a

bag But you have been getting subscriptions fro

yourself answerable to the these children educated, and

then, for want of proper superintendence, or thethee I don't want to be

hard upon you, but you are accountable for all this; you have arded as a sharer in the

iniquity, the least you can do by way of compensation, is not to make

yourself an obstruction to the course of justice"

"I don't arded," said Rachel, with subdued tone

and sunken head; "I only want to do right, and not act spitefully and

vindictively before he has had warning to defend himself"

"Or to set off to delude as many equal foo--mistaken people as he can

find elsewhere! Eh, Rachel? Don't you see, it this friend of yours

be innocent, a suive hi hih far froht back, and did as required