n't Mrs. Trevelyan's fault, you know, aunt."

"I say nothing about anybody's fault; but this I do say, that it was
a very great misfortune. I fought all that battle with your sister
Priscilla, and I don't mean to fight it again, my dear. If Hugh
marries the young lady, I hope she will be more happy than her
sister. There can be no harm in saying that."

Dorothy's letter to her brother shall be given, because it will
inform the reader of all the arrangements as they were made up to
that time, and will convey the Exeter news respecting various persons
with whom our story is concerned.

The Close, July 20th, 186--.

DEAR HUGH,--

The day for my marriage is now fixed, and I wish with all
my heart that it was the same with you. Pray give my love
to Nora. It seems so odd that, though she was living for a
while with mamma at Nuncombe Putney, I never should have
seen her yet. I am very glad that Brooke has seen her, and
he declares that she is quite _magnificently beautiful_.
Those are his own words.

We are to be married on the 10th of August, a Wednesday,
and now comes my great news. Aunt Stanbury says that you
are to come and stay in the house. She bids me tell you so
with her love; and that you can have a room as long as you
like. _Of course you must come._ In the first place, you
must because you are to give me away, and Brooke wouldn't
have me if I wasn't given away properly; and then it will
make me so happy that you and Aunt Stanbury should be
friends again. You can stay as long as you like, but, of
course, you must come the day before the wedding. We are
to be married in the Cathedral, and there are to be two
clergymen, but I don't yet know who they will be;--not Mr.
Gibson, certainly, as you were good enough to suggest.

Mr. Gibson is married to Arabella French, and they have
gone away somewhere into Cornwall. Camilla has come back,
and I have seen her once. She looked ever so fierce, as
though she intended to declare that she didn't mind what
anybody may think. They say that she still protests that
she never will speak to her sister again.

I was introduced to Mr. Barty Burgess the other day.
Brooke was here, and we met him in the Close. I hardly
knew what he said to me, I was so frightened; but Brooke
said that he meant to be civil, and that he is going
to send me a present. I have got a quantity of thin