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 : "but who do you think is coming besides?"

"Who, who?" exclaimed all.

"Nay, you shall guess," said the Peer.

"The Duke of Waterloo?" guessed Cynthia Courtown, the romp.

"Prince Hungary?" asked her sister Laura.

"Is it a gentleman?" asked Mrs. Felix Lorraine.

"No, no, you're all wrong, and all very stupid. It's Mrs. Million."

"Oh, how delightful!" said Cynthia.

"Oh, how annoying!" said the Marchioness.

"You need not look so agitated, my love," said the Marquess; "I have written to Mrs. Million, to say that we shall be most happy to see her; but, as the Castle is very full, she must not come with fifty carriages in four, as she did last year."

"And will Mrs. Million dine with us in the hall, Marquess?"' asked Cynthia Courtown.