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Well, brother; what would you say?

I am going to ask a very foolishI mean an idleI should say, an unmeaning question.

Never mind that; what is it?

Has Freemantle really a sister?

Is it possible that you have forgot the young lady whom you used to think poor Mordant resembled?

Very true; it went out of my head strangely.

Strangely indeed! Could you think he would talk of a sister, if he had none?

O no, no, no! I have not an atom of suspicion about me; but I thought it might be a sister-in-law, or a brother's wife, orthere is no saying how many intricate relationships people have, now-a-days.

He could have no sister-in-law; for poor Mordant, though distant, is his nearest male relation.