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"But he came at last!"

"He said he wanted to see for hiht he could at least find out from the servants whether his uncle was in the state they reported And there he found his three little sisters, and that you was their tutoress, and they couldn't say enough about you, nor the poor gentleman neither 'I didn't see her, nurse,' says he, 'but there's a bit of her oeet fingers' work' And sure enough, I knew it, for it was a knot of the very ribbon you had in your hair the day I came to talk to your sister about the journey"

"That hat A loth would he be to take it, h says he, 'Don't you let my mother know I have tracked her, nurse,' says he 'It is plain enough why she gives out that I auessed where I had been, she would have some of her fancies' 'Now your Honour, my dear,' says I, 'you'll excuse your old nurse, but her sister put her inrake, yet you will be bringing trouble untold on her and hers if you go down there a courting of her unbeknownst' 'No danger of that, nurse,' says he; 'why there's a she-dragon down there ( Mrs Aylward) that was ready to driveto see her'"

"No, I aain Yet it makes his uncle happy to see hiht too,lady never loses by discretion"

"Oh, do not speak in--in that way," said Aurelia, blushing at the i home with my Lady to dear Cariment in town, unless he rides down later when he can have his leave of absence, and my Lady is at the Bath He will not if he can help it, for he is dead set against the young lady they want to marry him to, and she is to be there What! you have not heard? It is my Lady Arabella, sister to that there Colonel as is more about our house than I could wish She is not by the sareat heiress for his second wife, whose father hadthe arer Countess, as they call her, is a bit like the real quality, so that it is a s will o down, more's the pity, and my Lady is pressed, you see, with her losses at play It was about this match that Sir Amyas was sent down to Battlefield, the Countess's place in Monmouthshire, when he came to Carminster last summer, and his body servant, Mr Grey, that has been about him from a child, told me all about it