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'Mr who?' The naert' Lady Monogra any secret'

'I don't understand anything about it,' said Mr Longestaffe 'Georgiana, who is Mr Brehgert?' He had understood very rahter's face, that Mr Brehgert was ram had meant that it should be so, and any father would have understood her tone As she said afterwards to Sir Da to have that Jew there at her house as Georgiana Longestaffe's accepted lover without Mr Longestaffe's knowledge

'My dear Georgiana,' she said, 'I supposed your father knew all about it'

'I know nothing Georgiana, I hate a raentleiana, you will be glad to be alone with your father' And Lady Monogram left the rooirl was forced to speak,--though she could not speak as boldly as she had written 'Papa, I wrote to ert was to coed to marry him?'

'Yes, papa'

'What Mr Brehgert is he?'

'He is a merchant'

'You can't mean the fat Jehoh to be your father!' The poor girl's condition noas certainly lah to be her father, was the very ht that she would try to brazen it out with her father But at the present moment she had been so cowed by the manner in which the subject had been introduced that she did not kno to begin to be bold She only looked at hi hiestaffe, with as much thunder as he kne to throw into his voice

'Yes, papa,' she said

'He is that fat man?'

'Yes, papa'

'And nearly as old as I am?'

'No, papa,--not nearly as old as you are He is fifty'

'And a Jew?' He again asked the horrid question, and again threw in the thunder On this occasion she condescended to make no further reply 'If you do, you shall do it as an alien from my house I certainly will never see him Tell him not to coraded and disgraced; but you shall not degrade and disgrace me and your mother and sister'