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 "And if all this," Miss Bydel continued, is not enough to make you respect her, says you, why respect her for the same thing that makes you respect one another, her money. And when we all asked how she could be poor, and have money too, you said that you had yourself seen ever so many bank-notes upon her table."

Ellis coloured; but not so painfully as Harleigh, at the sight of her blushes, unattended by any refutation; or any answer to this extraordinary assertion.

"And then, Mr. Giles, as you very well know, when I asked, If she has money, why don't she pay her debts? you replied, that she had paid them all. Upon which I said, I should be glad to know, then, why I was to be the only person left out, just only for my complaisance in waiting so long? and upon that I resolved to come myself, and see how the matter stood. For though I have served you with such good will, Mrs. Ellis, while I thought