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THE MAN OF FEELING. 205
were deeply engaged in a queftion, whe^
ther the name of fome great man in the
time of Henry the Seventh was Richard
; or Humphrey.
He did not fee his aunt again till flip¬
per ; the time between lie fpent in walk¬
ing, like fome troubled ghoft, round the
place where his treafure lay. He went
as far as a little gate, that led into a copfe
near Mr. Walton's houfe, to which that
gentleman had been fo obliging as to let
him have a key. He had juft begun to
open it, when he faw, on a terrafs below*
Mifs Walton walking with a gentleman
[ ' in a riding-drefs, whom he immediately
guefled to be Sir Harry Benfon. He
flopped of a fudden ; his hand fhook fo
much that he could hardly turn the key ;
he opened the gate however, and advanced
a few paces. The lady’s lap-dog pricked
up its ears, and barked: he flopped
again.
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