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"Best for ht Temples thrown on my hands, all in despair!

To have you at Myrtlewood is an infinite relief to me, both on their

account and Ermine's You should not suspect a penniless Scotsman of

such airs, Ailie"

"Not you, Colin, but your falass-bloas your father, and Mauleverer

your brother, so yours is by far the ht be thankful to have any one in it who could do

as you have done"

Alison's scruples were thus disposed of, and when Edward's brain cleared

itself from platinuh he insisted on henceforth sending hohter's expenses, and once said so a quiet old age with her and his sister; but at

present he was

to Ekaterinburg ie

His presence was but a qualified pleasure Naturally shy and absent,

his broken spirits and reerated his peculiarities; and under the pressure of ence, he had coiven

ithout a particle of his sister's patience or buoyancy, and had

problems of his

favourite pursuit, till the habit of abstraction had become too

confirmed to be shaken off When the blot on his naer an exile, but he could

not resu, friendships rudely severed could not be

re-united; his absorption had grown by indulgence; old interests had