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 you, for I believe, that during the last week he has never gone to bed till day break."

"I wonder how you can talk of such vulgar wretches," returned Mrs Mollins. "If you would but do yourself justice, you might soon rise out of the low sphere in which you have been buried. You ought now to aspire to something superior. I am sure I shall always be happy to assist you; and, with Mr Mollins's connections, you may get into the genteelest society when you please. Do you know that Lord Dashmore has been two days at Mount Flinders, and paid Mr Mollins and me such attention! He has invited us to spend our Christmas at Dashmore Lodge. Wont it be charming! But his Lordship has quite a friendship for Mr Mollins. They played together at billiards all the morning; and Mr Harry Spend assured me, that Mr Mollins was by far the most graceful player of the two: