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"If she would only lethim, for

her sake, to contradict this horrid slander!" the distraught ht, in her recapitulation of the conversation

with her obdurate niece "But she will not hear of it"

"I hardly think he would like it either," Rosa had rejoined "It

would hint at distrust on your part or on hers Mr Aylett's letter

should be sufficient to elicit the defence you crave"

"You are in the right, perhaps!" But Mrs Sutton had looked

miserably discontented "Yet to be frank with you, Rosa, Winston is

not apt to be conciliatory in his measures when he takes it into his

head that the fahtily, if not insolently, to poor Frederic"

Rosa had no doubt of this, even while she answered, "Neither

haughtiness nor downright insolence would prevent ainstant steps to

re-establish himself in the respect of the family he desires to

enter This is a very delicate matter--take what view of it we may

Hadn't you better wait a few days before you interfere? Nothing can

be lost--soained by prudent delay"

"And I suppose Winston WOULD be very much displeased at my