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I hope that suit will prosper, at any rate!' 'Why shouldn't it ?' 'Well, he cannot marry yet; and Frances sees but little of him now he has left Exonbury.

He was formerly doing duty here, but now he is curate of St.John's, Ivell, fifty miles up the line.

There is a tacit agreement between them, but--there have been friends of his who object, because of our vocation.