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The proposal pleased Melburyany desirable change of air as long as the eather

lasted, and for such a reason Suddenly recollecting hiet hoed to ye As you will see her often, you'll discover for yourself

if anything serious is the ," said Fitzpiers, who had seen Grace

one Fitzpiers paused, silent, registering his sensations,

like a e for a pearl into a medium of which he

knows not the density or teirl alive

As for the departed visitor, his own last words lingered in Melbury's

ears as he walked homeward; he felt that what he had said in the

eenteel, and unsuited to a

dialogue with an educated gentleman, the smallness of whose practice

was reatness of his fahed, and almost before they

were shaped They had expressed in a certain sense his feeling at

Fitzpiers's news, but yet they were not right Looking on the ground,

and planting his stick at each tread as if it were a flag-staff, he