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and the grounds also were to be made suitable: I was obliged to operate upon it.

A hard necessity.

However, since no better could be, they have my plan hanging in the library, to show what the place ought to be, if it will not; and this must even vindicate their reputation for taste to all the strangers and travellers who may visit the house of Glenvorluch.

Very good. Sir Level; the lady must be satisfied with that.—But pray let us talk of another new-married lady. How do you like Mrs. Charville? Is she handsome?

She is very fond of my plan.

O, no doubt; and this would have been a decided answer, had I inquired after her mental perfections. But being a plain country squire, and pretending to little refinement, I simply inquire if she is handsome.

I believe people do think her so, though the rules of art are against her.