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 to him, I expect as long a visit as you can afford to pay me. Think on what I have said; and, in the mean time, as I dare say your finances are not very flourishing,"—(thinks I, you are a witch!)—"allow me to leave this ten pound note in your hands." This part of his request was much more readily complied with than the other.

He left the room, as he said, to pay the bill; but, I believe, it was to give his fair daughter an opportunity of trying the effect of her eloquence on my proud spirit, which gave no great promise of concession. A few minutes with her, did more than both the fathers could have effected, the most powerful motive to submission being the certainty that I could not visit at her father's house until a reconciliation had taken place between me and mine. I therefore told her that, at her solicitation, I would submit to any liberal terms.

This being agreed to, her father observed that the carriage was at the door, shook hands with