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Your friends, Brightly and Thornhill, have also promised to be present, and here they come, opportunely.

Away with you, Kunliffe, if you would not be beset by half a dozen of ladies of ton, who have laid their heads together to oblige you to give them a fête-champêtre in your park. They know that you are here; and I have got the start of them only a few paces.

Thank you! thank you! I hear their voices without; and I would not encounter the clamour of that beldame and her train for the best buck in my park.

Ho, Sir Cameron! stop the fugitive. (Catching hold of his sleeve.) You shan't escape till you have heard my speech, as the delegate of all the fair ladies in. Your park, they bid me say, is fairy ground; and they request to be its happy fairies for one day, to dance in its glades, andand, I forget the rest. O yes! I am enjoined to say