sir.” In a very clear and pleasant young voice;

a little foreign in its accent, but a very little indeed.

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“I kiss your hand, miss,” said Mr. Lorry, with the manners of an

earlier date, as he made his formal bow again, and took his seat.

“I received a letter from the Bank, sir, yesterday, informing me

that some intelligenceor discovery”

“The word is not material, miss; either word will do.”

“respecting the small property of my poor father, whom I

never sawso long dead” Mr. Lorry moved in his chair, and

cast a troubled look towards the hospital procession of Negro

cupids. As if they had any help for anybody in their absurd

baskets!

“rendered it necessary that I should go to Paris, there to

communicate with a gentleman of the Bank, so good as to be

despatched to Paris for the purpose.”

“Myself.”

“As I was prepared to hear, sir.”

She curtseyed to him (young ladies made curtseys in those

days), with a pretty desire to convey to him that she felt how much

older and wiser he was than she. He made her another bow.

“I replied to the Bank, sir, that as it was considered necessary,

by those who knew, and who are so kind as to advise me, that I

should go to France, and that as I am an orphan and have no

friend who could go with me, I should esteem it highly if I might

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