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CHAPTER XIV.
The next morning, the gentlemen informed the young ladies, that they had become acquainted with one of their favourite novelists, and that they hoped soon to make them acquainted. This evening she will not be there. "This evening," said Miss Mortimer, "we could not be at the library, as my uncle is to have a party to dinner." Nothing important happened till the hour of appointment; when our hero, repairing to the captain's, found, to his great pleasure, that one of the guests was his new acquaintance, Mrs. Somerive. The conversation during dinner, whether the party consist of genius or no genius, generally
