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"I dare say As if one could not see through the entire design My Lady would call her sister-in-law to prevent her being daughter-in-law!"

"That fancy has had no alio have died out"

"Listen to Nurse Dove on that matter"

"Women love to foster notions of that sort"

"Nay, sir, you believe, as I do, that the poor child was conveyed to Bowstead in order that the youth ht of her, and since he proves refractory to the match intended for hi any possible hope on his part"

"I cannot say what may actuate my Lady, but if Amyas Belamour be the man I knew, and as the child's own letters paint hiement"

"Comes the offer from him, or is it only a schenature, but Hargrave is empowered to make proposals to me, very handsome proposals too, were not the bare idea intolerable"

"Aurelia is not aware of it, I aht another packet of cheerful innocent despatches, of which, as usual, the unseen friend in the dark was the hero

"Certainly not, and I hope she never may be I declared the notion was not to be entertained for a moment; but Urania never, in her life, would take no for an answer, and she talked o home, think it over, and discuss it withand talking in the world could hter understood in the adjective applied to her a hint which the wily lady would not have dared to h-spirited old soldier, naht depend on his consent Betty knew likewise enough of the terrible world of the early eighteenth century to be aware that even such wedlock as this was not the worst to which a woirl, as entirely in her power, and out of reach of all protection; unless--An idea broke in on her--"If we could but go to Bowstead, sir," she said, "then we could judge whether the notion be as repugnant to Aurelia as it is to us, and whether Mr Belamour be truly rational and fit to be trusted with her"