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'Which is as ive it up You are very fond

of that word instinct; I wish you would not use it'

'I have heard you use it, and say you instinctively like this person

or that'

'Certainly; I do not deny that sometimes I am drawn to a person or

repelled from him before I can say why; but I always force myself to

discover afterwards the cause of my attraction or repulsion, and I

believe it is a duty to do so If we neglect it we are little better

than the brutes, and rossly deceive ourselves'

At this e ju the board, and rushed into the front room It

was the four-horse coach froh Fenmarket on its road to Lincoln It was not the direct

route from London to Lincoln, but the Defiance went this way to

accommodate Fenmarket and other se horses at the 'Crown and Sceptre,' and as Madge stood

at the , a gentleman on the box-seat looked at her intently as

he passed In another minute he had descended, and elcomed by

the landlord, who stood on the pavement Clara e, her sister skipped into

the parlour again, hu a tune