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" Emily seems ready enough, at all events," observed 

 Jawleyford. 



" She'll never get the chance, 1 ' observed. Mrs. Jawleyford. 

 " Amelia is a very prudent girl, and won't commit herself, but she 

 knows how to manage the men." 



" Well then," said Jawleyford, with a hearty yawn, " I suppose 

 we may as well go to bed." 



So saying, he took his candle and retired. 



CHAPTER XIX. 



THE WET DAY. 



" THIS, OF COURSE YOU KNOW ': 



When the dirty slip-shod housemaid came in the morning with 

 her blacksmith's-looking tool-box to light Mr. Sponge's fire, a 

 riotous winter's day was in the full swing of its gloomy, deluging 

 power. The wind howled, and roared, and whistled, and shrieked, 



