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"Leaving us a dear sister to be aher sweet face for a kiss

Harriet pondered a little, and said, "My Lady is not at enency"

"We should be reduced to poverty indeed without theht honourable man, the only person whomas ards his memory we are safe, but no one can trust to her caprice"

"She never comes here, nor disturbs my father"

"No, but she makes heavy calls on the estate, and is displeased if he refuses to overpress the tenants or hesitates to cut the timber"

"I have heard say," added Harriet, "that her debts in town and her losses at play drove her to accept her present husband, Mr Wayland, a hideous old felloho had becoh soht man," said Betty "I should have fewer anxieties if he had not been sent out to Gibraltar and Minorca to superintend the fortifications"

"Meantiallant Colonel Mar," said Harriet lightly

"Fie! Harriet!" returned the elder sister; "I have allowed you too far My father calls Lady Bela officer, and permits no scandal to be spoken of her"

"Any

"But oh! sister!" cried Aurelia, "let us stay a little longer I have not half braided entle in the dark"

"Mr Amyas Belamour! Sir Jovian's brother! Ah! that is a sad story," replied Betty, "though I a only heard it discussed betweenat my saentleman and a man of parts, who hadat the Great House, he said my mother was the only person he met who could converse with him on the Old Masters, or any other subject of virtu, and that, being reported to my Lady, increased her bitterness all the more because Mr Belamour was a friend of Mr Addison and Sir Richard Steele, and had contributed soood fortune in his profession, and had forood old family, but one which had always been disliked by Lady Belaht to have attracted one of my Lady's many admirers, and that the latter was determined not to see her rival become her sister-in-law, and probably with the sa knighthood So, if she be not greatly belied, Lady Belamour plied all parties with her confidences, till she contrived to breed suspicion and jealousy on all sides, until finally Miss Sedhurst's brother, a crack-brained youth, offered such an insult to Mr Belaht that as Mr Belaht have been co man was fiery and hot teise; and Mr Belaht with pistols, an innovation that, as you know, my father hates, as far ; and the result was that Mr Sedhurst was shot dead, and Mr Bela lady, being always of a delicate constitution, fell into fits on hearing the news, an died in a feeeks The unfortunate Mr Belarief and reht or company, but has remained ever since in utter darkness and seclusion"