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"You, my kind friend, will do the honours," he said, "and ill ask Mrs Aylward to provide the entertain asked to meet Dr Godfrey," said Aurelia "Shall you admit theing company, but they can scarce be worse than I should find in such an asylu sister-in-law seems to have in preparation forabout that It is too shocking!"

"Forewarned, forearmed, as the proverb says Do you not see,a body of witnesses to the sanity of the recluse, even though he may 'in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell'?"

The visit took place; Dr Godfrey greeted Miss Delavie as an old friend, and the next day pronounced Mr Belaorated and aninant plan was really likely to prove the best possible stiratified the two old ladies by acall, dined with Aurelia and her pupils, who behaved very well, and hom he afterwards played for a whole hour so kindly that they placed hi and beautiful brother Mrs Phoebe and Mrs Delia came dressed in the faded splendours of the Louis XIV period, just at twilight, and were regaled with coffee and pound cake They were a good deal subdued, though as Aurelia listened to the conversation, it was plain enough what Mr Bela of the coquette

Still they asked with evident awe if it were true that their unfortunate cousin really intended to admit them, and they evidently beca for Juave his arripped hold of Aurelia's, tre she felt ready to swoon, andhow Miss Delavie could ever have ventured, all alone too!

After all, things had been made much less for-rooed as it hen Mr Greaves read prayers, with a very faint light from a shrouded lamp behind thecurtain To new comers it seemed pitchy darkness, but to Aurelia and Dr Godfrey it was a welco them at least to perceive the forulf, being the doorway to the inner roo to his kinswouides to take his hand; after which he begged theht was painful to him still If they would be seated he would reinning to be able to appreciate He was, in fact, sitting within his own roolimmer in the outer room