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ON THE PIER. 257<br />

were in <strong>her</strong> place. Not that I can conceive<br />

the possibility <strong>of</strong> your ever having written<br />

letters to Miss Clare ; and it seems to me<br />

all this mischief arises from his having done<br />

so. She'll just take him now, because hell<br />

want <strong>her</strong> more than ever. But you'll see ;<br />

let them go w<strong>her</strong>e they will, Milly will<br />

make something <strong>of</strong> him, and without <strong>her</strong><br />

he would never have been anything. Still,<br />

I do n't envy <strong>her</strong> the task. I should n't<br />

care to have such material to mould."<br />

" I think you have set yourself one quite<br />

as hard, when you talk <strong>of</strong> mounting into a<br />

garret, and accommodating yourself to the<br />

vie du pays.^'<br />

" Yes, but my mounting into the garret<br />

is only the prelude to your ascending the<br />

woolsack. Please to let that be always<br />

understood. But t<strong>her</strong>e ! I'm ashamed to<br />

be talking like this, with Milly, walking<br />

alone, in <strong>her</strong> misery, before us. What<br />

right has one to be happy when one looks<br />

VOL. III. 17

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