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 have it, Blanche, because he is a good clergyman, or because you think he is attached to Janet?"

"A little of both, Aunt Sarah; but please do not say because I think he is attached. There can be no doubt of the fact. Don't you see yourself that he is desperately in love?"

"My love, it is more than half a century ago since I had any experience in love making, and all its little signs and follies are not so visible through my spectacles as they are to your young eyes; but I daresay you are right and I hope you are, for Janet is a pleasing good young woman, and will make an excellent wife for a clergyman."

"Oh yes, she will be so useful at Chesford, and such a nice neighbour for me; and then if Rose marries Mr. Harcourt—"

"What! another love story? My dear Blanche, I hope you are not going to turn into a match-maker; of all the dangerous manufactories in the world, that is the worst, and the most unsatisfactory."