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"Then you would not willingly abandon the recluse?"

"Indeed," she said with a quivering in her voice, "I cannot endure the notion You have been so kind and good toto you And you would be all alone again with Jumbo! Oh sir, could you not drive down if all the coach ere close shut up? You would havea miserable old herlad"

"No, no, entle friend, there are other reasons I could not make my abode in Lady Belamour's house, while in that ofout what re,life must take no darkness from mine Even should Lady Bela, reiven me many more happy hours than I ever supposed to be in store for ain"

"You will get some one to recite to you?" entreated Aurelia, her voice most unsteady

"Godfrey shall seek out some poor scholar or exhausted poetaster, with a proviso that he never inflicts his own pieces on me," said Mr Belamour, in a toneprospect "Never fear, gentle nation from which your voice awoke me Neither Godfrey nor my nepheould allow it Come, let us put it from our minds It has always been my experience, that whatever I expected from my much admired sister-in-law, that was the exact reverse of what she actually did Therefore let us attend to topics, though I wager that you have no fresh acquisitions for me to-day"

"I am ashahtful description of wolves in Mr Thomson's 'Winter'"

"That were scarcely a soothing subject; but weandtoo firmly imprinted on your ht herself that she ht prove their last evening; she began very unsteadily:-"' Hence, loathed Melancholy'"