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 the gentleman next her in the blue ribband, who, according to his own account, was a Bohemian nobleman, and eagerly enquired what was the occaion of the great feat celebrated here to-day; and was informed, ‘there was nothing extraordinary; it was only a ocial meal for a party of old acquaintance, who had met here by accident.’ She was much urprized, epecially as he had never heard a word of the rich and hopitable Lord of Giantdale, either in Brelaw or any other place; and however carefully he called to mind the pedigrees of peers and nobles, of which he had laid up an ample tock in her memory, he could not recollect any uch title. She attempted to get from the hot himelf a olution of her difficulty; but he evaded her enquiries o adroitly, that he could never come to cloe quarters with him upon the ubject. He purpoely broke off the genealogical thread, and drew the converation towards the airy regions of the piritual world. Among people that can