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 marks, and insignia of the order of fisty cuffs."

"Look for her, then, man! Look for her!"

"I shall want small compulsion for that, I promise you; but where am I to look? Is she here?"

Ireton nodded.

"Nay, then, Master Ireton, since you bid me look, lend me, at least, some sort of spectacles, that may help me to see through a mask; for I am sure, if she be here, she must wear one."

"Are you sure that, if you should see her without one, you should not mistake her?"

"Yes, faith, am I!"

"What will you bet upon it?"

"What you will, 'Squire Ireton. A guinea to half a crown."

Mrs. Maple, alarmed now, for her own credit, desired Ireton to enquire whether her carriage were ready; but Ireton, urged by an unmeaning love of mischief, which, ordinarily, forms