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286 REYNOLDS’ WORKS “We have both alike, my dear brother,’’ she responded, ‘everything to hope.” A cry of joy burst from Frank’s lips, and he embraced his sister with the warmest effusion of delight. “Now tell me,’’ he said, “‘ everything that has taken place.”’ “Oh, then, dear Frank,’ she replied, archly, and yet with a softly blushing confusion at the same time, “ you will now have patience to listen to everything that I may have to say? ”’ ‘“Yes,’’? he answered, ‘ provided that you have nothing of a disagreeable nature to qualify the joyous intelligence already communicated.” ‘“ T do not think you will find it so,’ she rejoined. ‘‘ But first, dear Frank, I will speak of your own little love-affair. Come, let me take your arm, and we will walk to and fro beneath this grateful shade. I represented to our father frankly and candidly everything which had taken place between yourself and Miss Juhana Farefield, as you had previously related it all*to me — ’”’ “You told his lordship everything?’ murmured Frank, half-averting his blushing countenance. “ Oh, yes! Did we not agree, when I undertook to become spokeswoman i in the matter, that our father was to be dealt with frankly and mniceeert arly: Well, then, my dear brother, I told him all, and at first he looks very grave and very serious, for more reasons than one.’ iiss And those reasons? ’’ asked young Paton, quickly. ‘“ The first, as he explained them to me,’ contunted Eliza- beth, ‘ was peruse he could not help thinking that it was a mere transient passion on Juliana’s part, but yet he ad- mitted that he might be mistaken.”’ “ Oh, yes, he is mistaken! ”’ ejaculated Frank, vehemently, ‘for I know that she loves me, and were it not an egregious vanity on my part to use such terms, I should say that she loves me devotedly — adoringly.”’ “ So much the better, Frank, Inasmuch as you, my dear brother, are so deeply enamoured of her. That however was one reason which made the marquis look grave. ‘The second is, because he has no reason to entertain any good feeling toward Juliana’s mother, Lady Saxondale. On the contrary, there are certain circumstances, which he partly Gomichoo CS (E(0)