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." So Brooks, convinced of their folly, finally discarded certain uncomfortable thoughts which once or twice lately had troubled him.

He dined at Enton that night, and improved his acquaintance with Lady Caroom and her daughter, who were still staying there.

Although this was not a matter which he had mentioned to Mr.Ascough, there was something which he found more inexplicable even than Lord Arranmore's transference of the care of his estates to him, and that was the apparent encouragement which both he and Lady Caroom gave to the friendship between Sybil and himself.