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Elinor for a few moments remained silent. Her astonishment at what she heard was at first too great for words; but at length forcing herself to speak, and to speak cautiously, she said with a calmness of manner which tolerably well concealed her surprise and solicitude -- "May I ask if your engagement is of long standing?"
"We have been engaged these four years."
"Four years!"
"Yes."
Elinor, though greatly shocked, still felt unable to believe it.
"I did not know," said she, "that you were even acquainted till the other day."
"Our acquaintance, however, is of many years' date. He was under my uncle's care, you know, a considerable while."
"Your uncle!"
"Yes; Mr. Pratt. Did you never hear him talk of Mr. Pratt?"
"I think I have," replied Elinor, with an exertion of spirits, which increased with her increase of emotion.

Mary Cassatt paintings

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"I see none here but paltry knaves, scum o' the streets. Which is he?"
The jailer laughed.
"Here," he said; 'scan this big animal, and grant me an opinion."
The old man approached, and looked Hendon over, long and earnestly, then shook his head and said:
"Marry, this is no Hendon-nor ever was!"
"Right! Thy old eyes are sound yet. An I were Sir Hugh, I would take the shabby carle and-"
The jailer finished by lifting himself a-tiptoe with an imaginary halter, at the same time making a gurgling noise in his throat suggestive of suffocation. The old man said, vindictively:
"Let him bless God an he fare no worse. An I had the handling o' the villain, he should roast, or I am no true man!"
The jailer laughed a pleasant hyena laugh, and said:
"Give him a piece of thy mind, old man-they all do it. Thou"lt find it good diversion."
Then he sauntered toward his anteroom and disappeared. The old man dropped upon his knees and whispered: