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Rh something like a sale, or exchange, or arrangement, might take place, to the mutual convenience of both parties."

"Well, and Bertram"

"Why, Bertram replied, that he considered the original settlement of Mrs. Margaret Bertram, as the arrangement most proper in the circumstances of the family, and that therefore the estate of Singleside was the property of his sister."

"The rascal!" said Pleydell, wiping his spectacles, "he'll steal my heart as well as my mistress—Et puis?"

"And then, Sir Robert retired after many gracious speeches; but last week he again took the field in force, with his coach and six horses, his laced scarlet waistcoat, and best bob-wig—all very grand, as the good-boy books say."

"Aye! and what was his overture?"

"Why, he talked with great form of an attachment on the part of Charles Hazlewood to Miss Bertram."

"Aye, aye; he respected the little god