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Never mind the rules!—I beg pardon. She is handome then; and gay, I suppose.

Yes, yes: she is too gay; perhaps the world will say thoughtless; but I must still think there is a fund of good sense at bottom. She really perceived the beauties of it with great quickness, and took to it wonderfully.

Took to what?

To my plan.

O very true! how could I lose sight of that? And how will a gay thoughtless wife suit a man of Charville's disposition? He is very suspicious, you say.

They jar a little, as other married folks sometimes do; but if they put my plan into execution, it will occupy them more pleasantly—for a time at least.

If separating the trees will unite them, there is sense in the plan, and its taste is, of course, unquestionable.—And how do you like