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 with great complacency. "I do believe," said he, with a self-approving nod, "that if I had not been married I mighthem." The laird, aroused by this intelligence, inquired what the amount of the lady's property was, and how it was disposed of, learned from the communicative lawyer the account he had heard from the alderman's lady, that there was twelve thousand pounds burdened, indeed, with a dowager. The next day the laird, though not much addicted to balls or assemblies, proposed to his brother and sister-in-law to go to the first meeting of that sort which should be held at Doncaster, "wishing," he said, "to have a view of the Yorkshire lasses."—They readily agreed to his proposal, and about a week after repaired to the festive scene. Thinking an auxiliary might be useful, in carrying on his enterprize, he had bethought himself of applying to the attorney, and