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Rh no straw-bonneted, gingham-gowned pattern wives in my acquaintance. I shall make a point of cutting you." "I am glad that you, my dear Julia," said Lord Penrhyn, "show your usual good sense in not encouraging such folly. Again, I ask, how are you and Miss Louisa Granard to live upon three hundred a year?" "We do not," returned Charles, "intend to try; it would, indeed, have been folly to marry upon so limited an income, but we have always looked forward to your lordship's interest placing me in a more independent position." "I can and will do nothing for you," was the short stern answer. "I do not now ask you," said the other. "Mr. Glentworth's kindness has opened to me other prospects. I shall resign my present situation." "Very ungrateful of you," interrupted his sister, "after all the interest it required to obtain it." "I do not think that is much ingratitude," replied he, "in giving it up, when, by so doing, I more than treble my income." "I did not know that Glentworth had such interest. What place has he procured for you?" asked Lord Penrhyn. "I am to be the junior partner in the house of Franklin and Osborne, with which he has long been connected," answered Mr. Penrhyn.