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Well then, I take your bet that it will not.

Hush, hush! Here comes one of the parties concerned.

Welcome, Brightly; and Thornhill, also, welcome both to this little by-nook of dissipation! and when you took your route this way, I flatter myself you remembered that you have an old friend in the neighbourhood.

We did so, Kunliffe, and were now proposing to walk to your house. It is, I believe, within two miles of the village.

A short distance, which I hope you will often traverse, on foot or on horseback, as suits your convenience. I saw your groom at the stable door, Thornhill, rubbing down that beautiful brown nag of yours, and he told me you were here.