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 Chancery suits, but I will for the future, I shall look upon them now as connections. But go on, Aileen, this is too interesting."

"Well, Uncle Leigh reads Chancery suits, for, if you recollect, he hurried me out of town last year, soon after you came to Aunt Sarah's."

"I know he did, and I have hated him ever since; go on."

"He spoke to me about Colonel Hilton, and said he would have no encouragement given to a man who might be a pauper any day, that the suit would probably go against him; and as I would not promise to avoid him, he carried me to Leigh Hall."

"So like him."

"Well, Alfred—" said Aileen, with a little hesitation.

"And so his name is Alfred, one of my favourite names; but go on."

"Alfred tried, after I was gone, to make a friend of you; but after he had seen you twice, your marriage was declared, so that plan of carrying on our story failed, and as I heard