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Rh in the enjoyment, by placing it in our power, it is downright ingratitude not to partake." Lady Mandeville.—"A most amiable and peaceful doctrine! " Mr. Morland.—"I, for one, do not wish those days to return, when a man's forefathers left him a feud by way of inheritance, or a quarrel as a legacy." Edward Lorraine.—"Well, well, we can still have a suit in chancery; and I do not see but that, when

the redress will be about as destructive to both sides as when you faced your opponent at the head of your armed retainers; though, for myself, I am free to confess, I never ride up the avenue where I first catch sight of the towers of Etheringhame without regret for the days when our banner floated over five hundred horseman, and the crested helmets on the wall were not, as now, a vain show for the antiquary." Lady Mandeville.—"Yes—you have cause to regret those days, when, as a younger brother, you would have been put into a monastery or