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" you, Mandeville, take an especial interest in your young plantations, and say to yourself, 'How much more taste I have in the disposition of oak, elm, and beech, than my ancestors had!'" "To what does this allusion, whose truth I confess, tend?" said her husband, smiling. "Why, I want you to sympathise with me in my rejoicing over Emily's improvement; you