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 when the old gentleman heard the captain ask his daughter, whether she was not acquainted with some of the quizzes whom he had seen speak to her, and saw his daughter blush indignant at the charge, he thought it time to ask for an explanation; and begged the captain to inform him of whom he spoke.

The captain turned off the question with a laugh—saying, "he was only rallying Miss Stewart about a gentleman in a green coat, who had the assurance to ask her to dance—one of the town's people—and you know. Sir, what a vulgar set they are, he, he, he!"

"O shockingly vulgar indeed," said Miss Stewart; "but we have no acquaintance with them, I assure you—we visit none but the families in the country."

"Then you have no remorse for your cruelty to that poor Mr Fraser," cried the captain. "He looked so mortified