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266 while, and may not have the pleasure of seeing you again for a month or two."

"Where are you going?"

"To Grass-dale first," said he, with a half-smile he would willingly have suppressed if he could.

"To Grass-dale! Is she there, then?"

"Yes, but in a day or two she will leave it to accompany Mrs. Maxwell to F—— for the benefit of the sea air; and I shall go with them." (F—— was at that time a quiet but respectable watering place: it is considerably more frequented now).

Lawrence seemed to expect me to take advantage of this circumstance to intrust him with some sort of a message to his sister; and I believe he would have undertaken to deliver it without any material objections, if I had had the sense to ask him; though of course he would not offer to do so, if I was content to let it alone. But I could not bring myself to make the request; and it was not till after he