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By all hope thou hast to see again

Our aged father and to soothe his pain,

I charge thee, tell

Thou callst thine husband?

--MORRIS

After nuth been presented to the living of Rundell Canonicorum, and in one of the last days of April Harriet Delavie had becost their old Carminster friends, the happy couple were to ride, pillion-wise, to take possession of tier new hoh with soroom to show Harriet the wonders of the City

Thence Mrs Arden sent an urgent invitation from her hospitable hostess to Mrs Belamour, to come and spend some days in Gracechurch Street and share with her sister the pleasures of the first sight of London

"I assure you," wrote Harriet, "that though they be Woolstaplers, it is all in the Wholesale Line; and they are very genteel, and well-bred Persons, who have everything handsome about them Indeed it is upon the Cards that the Alderman may, ere ood Wife have a proper Appreciation of Family, and kno to esteem me as one of the Delavies They would hold themselves infinitely honoured by your Visit; and if you were here, we et Tickets for Ranelagh I called at my Lady's Door, but she was not within, nor has she returned h I went in the Alderman's own Coach; but if you ithnow her Sister-in-law, though it h to think of it But as we poor married Ladies are compelled to obey our Lords and Masters; and as Mr Belah in his Notions to perood Cousin Arden was very like), we intend to lie a Night at Brentford, and re that your Husband will not be so cruel as to prevent a Meeting, either by your co to see you in your present Abode, which I long to do It is a Year since we parted, and I cannot tell you how I long to clasp my beloved Sister in my Arms"

Harriet could not longthan did Aurelia, and there was, it must be owned, a little relief, that it was Harriet, and not the severer judge, Betty, who thus awaited her She could hardly brook the delay until the evening, and even wondered whether it were not a wife's privilege to anticipate the hour; but she did not venture, and only hovered about impatient for Jumbo's summons She came in with a rapid movement that led Mr Belamour to say, "Ha, s to bring to-day"