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When Melbury heard what had happened he seehtfully about the preenuinely sorry; and on Winterborne's he was the rieved in that

this catastrophe had so closely followed the sohter

He was quite angry with circu on

Giles a second trouble when the needful one inflicted by himself was

all that the proper order of events demanded "I told Giles's father

when he came into those houses not to spend too much money on lifehold

property held neither for his own life nor his son's," he exclaimed

"But he wouldn't listen to me And now Giles has to suffer for it"

"Poor Giles!" murmured Grace

"Now, Grace, between us two, it is very, very remarkable It is almost

as if I had foreseen this; and I ah I

am sincerely sorry for Giles Had we not dismissed him already, we

could hardly have found it in our hearts to dismiss him now So I say,

be thankful I'll do all I can for him as a friend; but as a pretender

to the position of ht of more"

And yet at that very moment the impracticability to which poor