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And will you give it up, after all, just when he agrees to your terms?

Nay, I don't know that. If my own apartment were better, and room for my curiosities, and if the back staircase were not so miserably narrow, I should not hesitate for a moment.

But things are as they are, and cannot be altered; so you must either take the house, with its imperfections, or give it up.

Ay, there it is: he is so unreasonable as to desire an immediate answer. I wish that word immediate were expunged from the vocabulary. If I had time, I could write to Lady Trinkum about it, and likewise Mr. Changet, the best judge of houses in the world; but to commit myself at onceOh! what is to be done!—What seal is that you are examining so minutely?

Two gules reversed on a field azure.

Ha! from that quarter! at it again

Did you not expect a second proposal when