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"He certainly is not aware of our intimacy."
"Of course he is not; you would soon know it to your cost if he were.
The place of your rendezvous is somewhat too near civilization for him;
you should, however, change it; never meet twice in the same place, if
you can."
"You are reaping a tolerably good harvest here, I suppose. Do they ever
place you in a difficulty?"
"Difficulty! God help you; there is not an individual among them, or
throughout the whole parish, with whose persons, circumstances, and
characters I am not acquainted; but even if it were not so, I could make
them give me unconsciously the very information they want--returned to
them, of course, in a new shape. I make them state the facts, and I draw
the inferences; nothing is easier; it is a trick that every impostor is
master of. How do you proceed with Miss Goodwin?"
"That matter is hopeless by fair means--she's in love with that d----d
brother of mine."
"No chance of the property, then?"
"Not as affairs stand at present; we must, however, maintain our
intimacy; if so, I won't despair yet.


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