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244 to understand something of human natur, and that sort of thingnot that I think the person we're speaking of has much of that sort of natur in him, but such as he has, you must learn as well as you can to abide by it, and make the best of it, for your own sake, and for the sake of Miss Fannyfor as for calling her by any other name it's a thing I can't do."

"But what has he to do with me?" asked Harry, "I'm not obliged to care for him."

"I wish you wasn't," returned Jeremy, "but he'll find the way to make you care, or I'm much mistakenwhich is a thing I never was yet in man or woman. You see, Sir, if your uncle had lived the time that God Almighty intended he should, he'd have provided for you handsomely, I've no doubt; but them as curtailed his life, curtailed your fortin, and that being the case, you must cut your coat according to your cloth."

"But the money's all Fanny's, is not it?" said Harry.

"Not a bawbee of it," replied Mr. Jeremy; "and that's the reason I want to give you a bit of a caution. If the money belonged to Miss Fanny, as it should have done, you might have snapt your fingers at a person that shall be