THE DUKE.

VOL. III.

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THE DUKE

AND

THE COUSIN.

CHAPTER I.

"What a union of all the affections and powers
By which life is exalted, embellish'd, refined,
Was embraced in that spirit!"

"BLANCHE, pray can you inform me what can possess the Duke to ask us to dinner in this extraordinary and abrupt manner?” exclaimed Lady Clairville, as her niece entered the drawing-room. "He told me that he had seen you in the Square; I must therefore beg for an explantion of all this. May I also be permitted to ask what are the terms which

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