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important time drew nigh. Christmas was to be passed by the Carabas family, the Beaconsfields, the Scropes, and the Clevelands, at Lord Courtown's villa at Richmond; at which place, on account of its vicinity to the MetropoUs, the Viscount had determined to make out the holidays,' notwithstanding the Thames entered his kitchen windows, and the