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 I beg your pardon, sir: do I understand this place to be your property?

It is not mine, sir: the more is the pity; yet is it so far well, that the owner is my good friend, and a highly respectable gentleman.

Good and respectable, sir, I take it, mean rich?

That is their meaning, sir.

I understand the owner to be a Mr. Crotchet. He has a handsome daughter, I am told.

He has, sir. Her eyes are like the fish