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"Yes, ma'am--but she looks such a tinkler"

"Cease that chatter, blockhead! and do ain Sam vanished; and mystery, animation, expectation rose to full

flow once more

"She's ready now," said the footman, as he reappeared "She wishes

to knoill be her first visitor"

"I think I had better just look in upon her before any of the ladies

go," said Colonel Dent

"Tell her, Sa"

Saentlemen; they need not trouble

themselves to co a titter, "any ladies either, except the young, and

single"

"By Jove, she has taste!" exclaio first," she said, in a tone which

a breach

in the van of his men

"Oh, my best! oh, my dearest! pause--reflect!" was her mama's cry;

but she swept past her in stately silence, passed through the door

which Colonel Dent held open, and we heard her enter the library