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It was he who had called Melbury by name "You look very down, Mr

Melbury--very, if I may say as much," he observed, when the

timber-merchant turned "But I know--I know A very sad case--very

I was bred to the law, as you know, and aer

to such matters Well, Mrs Fitzpiers has her remedy"

"Hohat--a remedy?" said Melbury

"Under the ne, sir A new court was established last year, and

under the new statute, twenty and twenty-one Vic, cap eighty-five,

un No er one law for the rich and another for the poor

But co to have a nibleykin of ruence ah he was a severely correcta tavern with Fred Beaucock--nay, would have been quite

uninfluenced by such a character on any other matter in the world--such

fascination lay in the idea of delivering his poor girl froe,

that it deprived him of the critical faculty He could not resist the

ex-lawyer's clerk, and entered the inn

Here they sat down to the rum, which Melbury paid for as aback in the settle with a legal gravity which