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Rh the Branxholm people were likely to do the great social gap that separated the Derricks from their tenants. Amy would always feel affectionately towards her, and her great relations would not be so cruel as to prevent her from visiting at Millmount.

Mr. Derrick called early on the following day, when Jessie was in the middle of her letter, and rather confused her ideas. He was colder and stiffer to herself than on the preceding day, but he was as apparently determined to send for Amy. He asked her many questions with regard to Branxholm and her parents there, and gathered from her sincere answers all he wanted to know with regard the position and education of the family. All that he heard and saw convinced him that there should be no delay, so he wrote his letter on his return, and despatched it at once.

END OF VOL. I. BILLING; PRINTER, GUILFORD