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106 "From the interest you take in the progress of my acquaintance with the lady, and the changes of my opinion concerning her, I thought you might be jealous."

He laughed again. "Jealous! no—But I thought you were going to marry Eliza Millward."

"You thought wrong then; I am not going to marry either one or the other—that I know of."

"Then I think you'd better let them alone."

"Are you going to marry Jane Wilson?"

He coloured, and played with the mane again, but answered,—

"No, I think not."

"Then you had better let her alone."

She won't let me alone—he might have said; but he only looked silly and said nothing for the space of half a minute, and then, made another attempt to turn the conversation; and, this time, I let it pass; for he had borne enough: another word on the subject would