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boy; and we shall all live in Park Lane: and ma tante shall leave us all her money.

I shall try and walk to-morrow at 3 in the usual place. If Miss B. accompanies me, you must come to dinner, and bring an answer, and put it in the third volume of Porteus's Sermons. But, at all events, come to your own.R.

To Miss Eliza Styles,

At Mr. Barnet's, Saddler, Knightsbridge.


And I trust there is no reader of this little story who has not discernment enough to perceive that the Miss Eliza Styles (an old schoolfellow, Rebecca said, with whom she had resumed an active correspondence of late) and who used to fetch these letters from the saddler's, wore brass spurs, and large curling mustachios, and was indeed no other than Captain Rawdon Crawley.