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Onethe breakfast rooed to have a ether to the library, and after soies, and otten the L200 which she had lent him

"The L200," cried he; "O, ay, true!--I protest it had escaped me Well, but you don't want it immediately?"

"Indeed I do, if you can conveniently spare it"

"O yes, certainly!--without the least doubt!--Though now I think of it--it's extremely unlucky, but really just at this time--why did not you put me in mind of it before?"

"I hoped you would have reo extremely well--however, you shall certainly have it very soon, that you reat difference to you"

He then wished her good retted that she had ever lent it at all, and determined for the future strictly to follow the advice of Mr Monckton in trusting him no more

Two or three days passed on, but still no notice was taken either of the payment or of the debt She then resolved to renew her application, and be ent with him; but she found, to her utter surprise, this was not in her power, and that though she lived under the same roof with him, she had no opportunity to enforce her claim Mr Harrel, whenever she desired to speak with him, protested he was so much hurried he had not a moment to spare: and even when, tired of his excuses, she pursued hi, however, and bowing, and calling out "I am vastly sorry, but I am so late now I cannot stop an instant; however, as soon as I come back, I shall be wholly at your command"

When he caentleman, was sure to be with hi an audience were sure to be encreased And by thisany private conversation, he frustrated all her sche upon his delay, since her resente her to the indelicacy of dunning him in presence of a third person

She was now much perplext herself how to put into execution her plans for the Hills: she kneould be as vain to apply for s, as for payiven, and her word she held sacred: she resolved, therefore, for the present, to bestow upon them the 50 pounds she still retained, and, if the rest should be necessary before she becae, to spare it, however inconveniently, from her private allowance, which, by the will of her uncle, was 500 pounds a year, 250 pounds of which Mr Harrel received for her board and accommodations