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"Why?"

"I cannot tell you 'why' Yes, I will be honest and acknowledge that he always gives ates hiry at General Washington, for ton has much of the same exclusive air I hope it is no treason to say that nity is perreat positions As for the Hydes, father and son, I would prefer to hear no uest, I was civil to him; but Arenta You know that I have never seen her"

"That is the truth I had forgotten Well, then, I went to her with the news; and she rubbed her chin, and called to her et a bow of crape and put it on the front door 'It is moral, and proper, and respectable, Arenta,' she said, 'and I advise you to do the sahed and added, 'Shall I tell you, niece, what I think of the great reeable, conceited creatures; and ought, all of them, to have died before they were born; and for my part, I am satisfied not to have had the fate to marry one of them As for Benjareat rateful that I never saw him but once I formed my opinion of him then; for I only need to see a person once, to form an opinion--and he is dead! Well, then, every one dies at their own ti for him"

"Does it?" asked Arenta, with indifference "Aunt was beginning to tellabout him when he was in France, but I just put a stop to talk like that, and said, 'Now, aunt, for a little of e Berckel, and asked her if she thought I e; and she answered, 'If you are tired of easy days, Arenta, go, and take a husband,' After a while I spoke to her about Lieutenant Hyde, and she said, 'she had seen the little cockrel strutting about Pearl Street'"

"That was not a proper thing to say Lieutenant Hyde carries hiuished elica has her oay of saying things She intended nothing unkind or disrespectful She told me that she had frequently danced with his father when she was a girl and a beauty; and she added with a laugh, 'I can assure you, Arenta, that in those days he was no saint; although he is now, I hear, the very pink of propriety'"