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'I don't think it quite nice, mao, I o with you'

'What on earth can be o to your own cousin's house?'

'You knohat I mean, mamma'

'It's done now,at all in what you say' This little conversation arose frohter of her intention of soliciting the hospitality of Carbury Manor for the Whitsun week It was very grievous to Henrietta that she should be taken to the house of a h he was her cousin But she had no escape She could not rerievance to any one but her ht be quite safe fro letter to her cousin before she spoke to her daughter:-Welbeck Street, 24th April, 18--

My dear Roger, We kno kind you are and how sincere, and that if what I a to propose doesn't suit you'll say so at once I have been working very hard too hard indeed, and I feel that nothing will dointo the country for a day or two Would you take us for a part of Whitsun week? We would come down on the 20th May and stay over the Sunday if you would keep us Felix says he would run down though he would not trouble you for so long a tilad to hear of his being put upon that Great American Railway Board as a Director It opens a new sphere of life to him, and will enable hireat confidence to place in one so young

Of course you will say so at once if my little proposal interferes with any of your plans, but you have been so very very kind to us that I have no scruple init

Henrietta joins with me in kind love

Your affectionate cousin, MATILDA CARBURY

There was er Carbury In the first place he felt that Henrietta should not be brought to his house Much as he loved her, dear as her presence to him alas, he hardly wished to have her at Carbury unless she would come with a resolution to be its future mistress In one respect he did Lady Carbury an injustice He knew that she was anxious to forward his suit, and he thought that Henrietta was being brought to his house with that object He had not heard that the great heiress was co of Lady Carbury's scheusted by the ill-founded pride which the er Carbury did not believe in the Railway He did not believe in Fisker, nor in Melue had acted in opposition to his advice in yielding to the seductions of Fisker The whole thing was to his mind false, fraudulent, and ruinous Of what nature could be a Company which should have itself directed by such men as Lord Alfred Grendall and Sir Felix Carbury? And then as to their great Chairman, did not everybody know, in spite of all the duchesses, that Mr Melh there was er loved Paul Montague well and could not bear with patience the appearance of his friend's naratulations because Sir Felix Carbury was one of the Board! He did not knohich to despiseto such a Board, or the Board for having such a director 'New sphere of life!' he said to hiate!'