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(1 a novel. Chapter the First.

The Uncle of Elfrida was the of Frederic; in other words, they were first cousins by the Father's side.

Being both born in one day both brought up at one school, it was not wonderfull that they should look on each other with something more than bare politennes. They loved with mutual sincerity but were both determined not to transgres the rules of Propriety by owning their attachment, to any one else.