No fear that she will be decamping to Gretna Green." "She was a very lovely child," observed the lawyer; "I remember that." "Ay; you have seen her at East Lynne, in her mother's lifetime.

But, to return to business.

If you become the purchaser of the East Lynne estate, Mr.Carlyle, it must be under the rose.

The money that it brings, after paying off the mortgage, I must have, as I tell you, for my private use; and you know I should not be able to touch a farthing of it if the confounded public got an inkling of the transfer.

In the eyes of the world, the proprietor of East Lynne must be Lord Mount Severn--at least for some little time afterwards.