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the first time in his life he had now passed hours of happiness in the
society of a beautiful girl, who had left him to think of her afterward
without a single humiliating remembrance to lower him in his own esteem.
Anxiously as he tried to hide it, the change produced in his look and
manner by the new feeling awakened in him was not a change which could
be concealed from Mrs. Lecount. On the second day she pointedly asked
him whether he had not made an arrangement to call on the Bygraves.
He denied it as before. "Perhaps you are going to-morrow, Mr. Noel?"
persisted the housekeeper. He was at the end of his resources; he was
impatient to be rid of her inquiries; he trusted to his friend at North
Shingles to help him; and this time he answered Yes. "If you see the
young lady," proceeded Mrs. Lecount, "don't forget that note of mine,
sir, which you have in your waistcoat-pocket." No more was said on
either side, but by that night's post the housekeeper wrote to Miss
Garth. The letter merely acknowledged, with thanks, the receipt of Miss
Garth's communication, and informed her that in a few days Mrs. Lecount
hoped to be in a position to write again and summon Mr.
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