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CHAP. XIV.
By the terms of his father's will, Robert, on his brother's leaving the kingdom, became the legal possessor of the farm. He wanted three years of one-and-twenty; but as his mother agreed to assist him in its management, it was thought for the interest of the family, that he should succeed to it without delay.
No sooner was this point settled, than the young man, who had ever shewn a sulky antipathy to Mrs Mason, began to
