\"and you\"ll not grow too good to joke and be merry?\"

\"not i. i shall be merrier than i hāve ever been, now i hāve got my ownway.\"

\"and you\"ll not go a figure, but let me buy your dresses for you?\"

\"indeed i mean to buy them for myself. you shall e with me if youlike; but no one can please me but myself.\"

\"oh! i was afraid you\"d dress in brown and dust-colour, not to show thedirt you\"ll pick up in all those places. i\"m glad you\"re going to keep oneor two vanities, just by way of specimens of the old adam.\"

\"i\"m going to be just the same, edith, if you and my aunt could but fancyso. only as i hāve neither husband nor child to give me natural duties, i

must make myself some, in addition to ordering my gowns.\"

in the family conclāve, which was made up of edith, her mother, andher husband, it was decided that perhaps all these plans of hers wouldonly secure her the more for henry lennox. they kept her out of theway of other friends who might hāve eligible sons or brothers; and itwas also agreed that she never seemed to take much pleasure in thesociety of any one but henry, out of their own family. the otheradmirers, attracted by her appearance or the reputation of her fortune,were swept away, by her unconscious smiling disdain, into the pathsfrequented by other beauties less fastidious, or other heiresses with alarger amount of gold. henry and she grew slowly into closer intimacy;but neither he nor she were people to brook the slightest notice of theirproceedings.

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