Dilemmas of Pride, (Vol 3 of 3)

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er, with a young woman, whose personal attractions were above mediocrity, and whose modesty was not likely to be troublesome; while from her inferiority of station, her ideas of

full two hours, he found the candle-wicks ominously lo

erial in the way of extraordinary combinations of circumstances that fate seemed so liberally to have provided; and that, by the operation of those so worked, he should succeed in obtaining what had so long been the object, though for many years back the hopeless one, of his ambition-the Arden estates, Fips having nothing more to bring against him than surmises that the acquisition was not disagreeable to him-he should set at nought the tears of Miss Fips, and merely keep Fips's tongue

circulation to many evil reports and wicked surmises. He gossiped away, in particular, about there having existed but little cordiality between the brothers of late, in consequence of an unfortunate rivalship; in which, too, he said it must be confessed that Sir Alfred was very ill-treated. And the l