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GUY MANNERING.
CHAPTER VIII.
Here's a good world!
——— knew you of this fair work?
King John.
Julia Mannering to Matilda Marchmont.
"I must take up the thread of my story, my dearest Matilda, where I broke off yesterday.
"For two or three days we talked of nothing but our siege and its probable consequences, and dinned into my father's unwilling ears a proposal to go to Edinburgh, or at least to Dumfries, where there is remarkably good society, until the resentment of these outlaws should blow over. He answered with great compo-
