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"Why, Mother, you don't think it would be a good way of sustainingmyself from the aspersions of Will Maskery? Besides, I'm not so sure that they ARE aspersions I AM a lazy fellow, and get terribly heavy inet savage at a laar when he asks me for sixpence Those poor lean cobblers, who think they can help to regenerate ht before they begin their day's work, may well have a poor opinion ofto lunch?"

"Miss Irwine told Bridget to take her lunch upstairs," said Carroll; "she can't leave Miss Anne"

"Oh, very well Tell Bridget to say I'll go up and see Miss Anne presently You can use your right ar that Captain Donnithorne had taken his ar

"Yes, pretty well; but Godwin insists onit up constantly for soiust It's a desperately dull business being shut up at the Chase in the summer months, when one can neither hunt nor shoot, so as toHowever, we are to astonish the echoes on the 30th of July My grandfather has given me carte blanche for once, and I promise you the entertainment shall be worthy of the occasion The world will not see the grand epoch of my majority twice I think I shall have a lofty throne for you, Godmamma, or rather two, one on the lawn and another in the ballroooddess"

"Iouttwenty years ago," said Mrs Irwine "Ah, I think I shall see your poorabout in her white dress, which looked to me almost like a shroud that very day; and it WAS her shroud only threedress were buried with her too She had set her heart on that, sweet soul! Thank God you take after your mother's family, Arthur If you had been a puny, wiry, yellow baby, I wouldn't have stood godmother to you I should have been sure you would turn out a Donnithorne But you were such a broad-faced, broad-chested, loud-screaett"