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260 is a model wife. I cannot think how she brought you up with such notions of matrimonial duties, Miss Isabel. But if you really wan to keep Allan at home I should be very glad to take Gundabook off your father's hands rather than that it should make such a division of your family."

"Now that it is so improved!" said Isabel, who did not want for the family shrewdness; "but you'll have to convince my father, and, as I told you, that is no easy mater, for what he begins he always carries out; and if i were necessary for Gundabook that he should go there himself, he'd go and make no words about i No; you had better try to drive George Copeland off his notions about England if you want to be a friend of the family."

"Of course if I did repurchase Gundabook I should compensate your father for his improvements; and Copeland has really done a great deal, both for the house and the

"He is very handy, George, I'll say that for him, though I've a very black crow to pick with him just now. But even if you offered what you thought a long price for the improvements I don't think you would come near up to my fathers notion of what they are worth," said

"You ought to think your sister very lucky to