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PRELUDE TO AN ENGAGEMENT.
Money was a strong point with the Elburne brood.

The Jocelyns very properly respected blood; but being, as Harry, their youngest representative, termed them, poor as rats, they were justified in considering it a marketable stuff; and when they married they married for money.

The Hon.

Miss Jocelyn had espoused a manufacturer, who failed in his contract, and deserved his death.