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shock given to Ellis by this scene of apparent detection and disgrace, prevented not Mr. Tedman from exulting at a mark of preference, which he considered as a letting down to what he called the quality. He ordered his footman to see Miss safe to her lodging; and regretted that he could not take her to it in his own coach, "which I would certainly, my dear, do," he said, "but for the particularity of my darter, who will never consent to the most minimus thing in the world, but what she thinks will be agreeable to the quality."

Ellis passed the rest of the day in the most severe inquietude, ruminating upon the ill effects that would probably result from an attack which she had been so little able to parry. Vainly she expected Miss Arbe, from whom alone