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Dinah, who had risen when the gentle, curtsied respectfully when she saw Mr Irwine looking at her and advancing towards her He had never yet spoken to her, or stood face to face with her, and her first thought, as her eyes ood seed reeable impression must have been nant deference, which would have been equally in place if she had been the nified lady of his acquaintance

"You are only a visitor in this neighbourhood, I think?" were his first words, as he seated himself opposite to her

"No, sir, I come fro me to have rest from my work there, because I'd been ill, and she invited me to come and stay with her for a while"

"Ah, I reo there It's a dreary bleak place They were building a cotton-o now I suppose the place is a good deal changed by the eed so far as the et a livelihood for the in it, and make it better for the tradesfolks I work in it rateful, for thereby I have enough and to spare But it's still a bleak place, as you say, sir--very different fro there, probably, so that you are attached to the place as your hoht me up, for I was an orphan But she was taken away seven years ago, and I have no other kindred that I know of, besides ood to me, and would have ood land, wherein they eat bread without scarceness But I'm not free to leave Snowfield, where I was first planted, and have grown deep into it, like the srass on the hill-top"

"Ah, I daresay you have ious friends and companions there; you are a Methodist--a Wesleyan, I think?"

"Yes, ed to the Society, and I have cause to be thankful for the privileges I have had thereby fro in the habit of preaching? For I understand you preached at Hayslope last night"