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Rh wise my lady desired them to do it, only, as cook says" The man suddenly stopped, as if conscious he had said too much; but old Judy, who concluded that he stood still in the wrong place, added vehemently, "All the poor cook says is just the truth, yer honour; my lady says, 'make me a boxful of grand things—I insist upon it;' but the deuce a stiver she sends to go to market with, and that's the rale truth, as I knows from them as found it out at Master Penrhyn's, who is a gentleman as sets his face agin the bezars, tho' no way agin the poor in ginral; being he is no way partial to lady shopkeepers, not liking by any manes that every dirty fellow with a crown in his pocket should have lave to stare his own beautiful wife out o' countenance, an' she the mother of his heir, yer honour."    "Then it appears every body does not approve bazaars, Judy?" said Lord Meersbrook, exceedingly amused by her earnestness, and by no means sorry to have an opportunity of talking about the young ladies, "for the sake of his brother," as he assured himself. "Why, troth, my lord (for a raal lord and a gintleman into the bargain I don't doubt ye are), there's two sides as to opinions in every thing; one good man does not see wid the same eyes as another good man, and who's to say which o'ther eyes sees the clearest. But about one thing there's no doubt at all at all—things cannot be bought athout money, and the most