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tricky fellows! I wish we could contrive to make you both lose.

That is impossible; but at least let us wait till it be absolutely decided. The lady may accept her proffered liberty, or may change her mind, before eleven o'clock to-morrow morning.

Ay, now is my turn to have my infirmity exposed. But it only convinces me that I am a more suitable match for Sir Cameron, who in his state of humiliation, as he calls it, will learn to have patience with me; and I restore to him the hand he has released.

Bravo! they are an equal match, and a happy union may it prove.

Come hither, cousin. You look less happy than I could wish; and happy as I now am, I wish to make myself a little happier. I have said that the thoughts of that bungled deed shall annoy me no more. I cannot part with that small estate upon which my mansion is placed, with its park and ancient oaks around it.—But the full value of the whole you shall receive from me, as soon as proper deeds of conveyance,