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Rh wish I could get that letter I wrote about the sailor out of the old man's hands, indeed I do. Rotheles, I fear I have been hasty?" "Never mind, sister, cheer up; write your book, and depend upon it, not one of the Haleses, to the tenth generation, will look on the side you are on. You have the infidels on the hip there, depend upon it." "I wish you would be serious, Rotheles; I call this an important affair." "So important, I must have half a bottle of claret upon it, and much shall I wish for a whole one. Poor Mary! her innocent, sorrowing, but always kind, good heart, is indeed a thing to dwell on and exult in." "But when shall we have letters from Lady Allerton?" said her mother. "To-morrow, I apprehend, since they are not come with the newspapers; most likely the parties are on their way homewards now. You know the letters would be delivered in Welbeck Street; that accounts for the paper coming first." "They will stop some time in Paris, and send for us to join them; it will be the best possible thing for mamma's cough," said Helen. "By the same rule, they must send your mamma her travelling expences, miss; she can't have the clog of a couple of grown daughters at her