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 material, and you may write your letter whenever you chuse. Would it make you happy to write to William?"

"Yes, very."

"Then let it be done now. Come with me into the breakfast room, we shall find every thing there, and be sure of having the room to ourselves."

"But cousin—will it go to the post?"

"Yes, depend upon me it shall; it shall go with the other letters; and as your uncle will frank it, it will cost William nothing."

"My uncle!" repeated Fanny with a frightened look.

"Yes, when you have written the letter, I will take it to my father to frank."

Fanny thought it a bold measure, but offered no farther resistance; and they went together into the breakfast-room, where Edmund prepared her paper, and ruled her lines with all the good will that her brother could himself have felt