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 any thing that you all think eligible. Have I ever seen either of the gentlemen?—Yes, Mr. Charles Maddox dined at my Sister's one day, did not he Henry?—A quiet-looking young man. I remember him. Let him be applied to, if you please, for it will be less unpleasant to me than to have a perfect stranger."

Charles Maddox was to be the man.—Tom repeated his resolution of going to him early on the morrow; and though Julia, who had scarcely opened her lips before, observed in a sarcastic manner, and with a glance, first at Maria, and then at Edmund, that "the Mansfield Theatricals would enliven the whole neighbourhood, exceedingly"—Edmund still held his peace, and shewed his feelings only by a determined gravity.

"I am not very sanguine as to our play"—said Miss Crawford in an under voice, to Fanny, after some tion;