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stir a step on any busineſs.of mine. YourAncle wants rest. I see by the position of your foot, that you have used it toomuch already. – No, I shall go aboutmy House-taking directly. Our Dinneris not ordered till six — & by that time I hope to have completed it. It is nowonly 1/2half past 4. — As to seeing me againto day —this EvengEvening – I cannot answer for it;the others will be at the Hotel all theEvengEvening, & delighted to see you at any time, but as soon as I get back I shall hear what Arthur has done about our ownLodgings, & probably the momentDinner is over, shall be out againon busineſs relative to them, for wehope to get into some otherLodgings or otherthem & be settledafter breakfast tomorrow. — I have not much confidence in poor Arthur'sskill for Lodging-taking, but he seemedto like the commiſsion.to undertake it. —" "I thinkyou are doing too much, said Mr . P.Parker You will knock yourself up. Youshd .should not move again after Dinner."

""No, indeed you should not – Oh! — as to your SistersDinner criedhis wife, for Dinner is such athat's never anything more merethan aname with you all, that

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