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VIVIAN GREY.




BOOK THE FOURTH.

CHAP. I.

THE PARKS.

The important time drew nigh. Christmas was to be passed by the Carabas family, the Beaconsfields, the Scropes, and the Clevelands, at Lord Courtown's villa at Richmond; at which place, on account of its vicinity to the MetropoUs, the Viscount had determined to make out the holidays,' notwithstanding the Thames entered his kitchen windows, and the