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 think young Mortimer is well affected to Charlotte; that would be a very good marriage for our girl, sister, and I should rather see a great grandson to you, father, in that way, than by so early a marriage of my nephew." "Mortimer," said Mrs. Hamilton, "is only a year older; besides, you know he is going abroad as secretary to our ambassador in France." "I think," said Wentbridge, "of late, he does not seem to relish that appointment, and frequently enlarges upon the pleasures of agriculture, and a country life. I observe, both he and my nephew are particularly bent on ingratiating themselves with the captain, who is the supreme director of the Mortimer family."

While the venerable vicar and his children were thus entertaining themselves about his grand-children, our hero had reached the house that contained his