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"Harry has paid a visit to these neighbors of ours," said she, "these
Goodwins, and I think, now that he has come home, it would be only
prudent on our part to renew the intimacy that was between us. Not that
I like, or ever will like, a bone in one of their bodies; but it's only
right that we should foil them at their own weapons, and try to get back
the property into the hands of one of the family at least, if we can,
and so prevent it from going to strangers. I am determined to pay them a
friendly visit tomorrow."
"A friendly visit!" exclaimed her husband, with an expression of
surprise and indignation on his countenance which he could not conceal;
"how can you say a friendly visit, after having just told us that you
neither like them, nor ever will like them? not that it was at all
necessary for you to assure us of that. It is, however, the hypocrisy of
the thing on your part that startle? and disgusts me."
"Call it prudence, if you please, Lindsay, or worldly wisdom, if you
like, after all the best kind of wisdom; and I only wish you had more of
it.


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