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CHAPTER HI.DURING THE LULL.On the appointed day, at the appointed hour,Mr. Felton, accompanied by his nephew, calledon _\Irs. Ireton P. Bembridge, who received thetwo gentlemen with no remarkably cordiality.Coquetry was so inseparable from her natureand habits,that she could not forbear from practisinga few of her fascinations upon the youngerman, and she therefore relaxed considerably fromthe first formality of her demeanour after a while.But George Dallas was the least promising andencouraging of subjects for the peculiar practiceof the beautiful widow, and he so resolutely aidedhis uncle inplacing the conversation on a strictlybusinessfooting, and keeping it there, as tospeedily convince the lady that he was entirelyunworthyof her notice. She was not destituteof a certain good nature which rarely fails to

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