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"Yes," said Fitzpiers

"And you wish to become better acquainted with her? You e--of course that is what you et acquainted with her, with a

view to being her accepted lover; and if we suited each other, what

would naturally follow"

The tiitated; his hand

tre-stick "This takesdown "I don'tattracted by her; but it did

not occur to me that it would be you I always said," continued he,

with a lump in his throat, "that my Grace would make a mark at her own

level some day That hy I educated her I said to h herout so much money year after year I kneould tell

in the end 'Where you've not good s

would be waste and vanity,' I said 'But where you have that lad you don't object," said Fitzpiers, al that Grace

had not been quite so cheap for hi I don't object, certainly Indeed," added the

honest

else than highly honored personally; and it is a great credit to her to

have drawn to her a ood professional station and venerable

old fa he was about