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home to go to, and I am the better for his company. I should not wonder now if he were to spend the best part of every summer with me.

A very bad—I mean a very extraordinary arrangement. Why does he not marry?

Why, in the first place, he has little money to keep house upon, and he is so whimsical and scrupulous that he will marry no woman, forsooth, unless he be in love with her; and a young man's inclinations, you know, Charville, will not be controlled by prudence and propriety: they will wander here and there.—O dear! every where, where they should not. (After a long pause.) Well, you say you will consider of it. (Another pause.) Yes, I see you are considering of it.

O no, not at all. The orchard-field that you wish me to purchase.

No no, my dear sir; the little farm which I do not wish you to purchase.

I mean so, I mean so; I'll think of it at leisure.

And when you have done so, you will have the goodness to let me know the result.