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THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. sof ciinone to deny an assertion which Mr. Denison hed made with the positive manner of one who was yet, on the other hand, the youth was loath to admit that his secret had been rightly read. “No matter, my young freind,” continued Mr. Denison, “how I have made this discovery: you were rapidly falling into confusion—and ho was 1 a loes for the most fitting language wherein te shape the document. “Suffer me to prompt you as to what you ought to say,” observed Mr. Denison: and as Frank the old gentleman proceeded to dio- tate a letter couched in terms of the most cutting perecive that I am better informed than perhaps | severity ee ein ned. | But the twpio is evidently painful a one to welt at unnecessary length. Follow my edvico—pen a letter in the sense I have suggested—and leave the rest to me.” The youth felt that Mr. Danison was speaking to father would have spoken, and with an oqual amount of true paternal kindness. He therefure hesitated not to obey the suggestion he had re- esuived ; and placing himself at the writing-table, he took upapen. But when he had written the first Gne he felt totally unable to proceed: his ideas BO. 61.—THIRD SERIES. “ Do you not think that this is going somewhat —— inquired Frank, presently stopping Pr “Would you use delicate language and mincing phraseology towards a creature of euch a stamp?” demanded Mr. Denison with something like stern- ness in his accents. “Understand me well, Frank —I wish you to write such a letter that Mise Fare- field, notwithstanding all her effruntery, will never dare molest you again. Indeod, if she pusse wes one single spark of pride, she will endeavour w banish you from her thougivs.” (CO au? Gua an (C DOO (CO