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"But what do you intend to do? If she marries your brother the property
goes to him--and you may go whistle."
"I don't give it up, though--I bear a brain still, I think; but the
truth is, I have not completed my plan of operations. What I am to do, I
know not yet exactly. If I could break off the match between her and my
brother, she might probably, through the influence of her parents
and other causes, he persuaded into a reluctant marriage with Harry
Woodward; time, however, will tell, and I must only work my way through
the difficulty as well as I can. I will now leave you, and I don't think
I shall be able to see you again for a week to come."
"Before you go let me ask if you know a vagabond called Ranting Rody,
who goes about through the country living no one knows how?"
"No, I do not know him; what is he?"
"He's nothing except a paramour of Caterine Collins's, who, you know,
is a rival of ours; nobody here knows anything about him, whilst he, it
appears, knows every one and everything."
"He would make a good conjurer," replied Woodward, smiling.


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