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HOW MR. CROSBIE BECAME AGAIN A HAPPY MAN.
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came, showed him that a larger income, at the present moment was not possible for him. The countess had for a long time refused to let Lady Alexandrina go with her on so small a pittance as four hundred and fifty;—and then were there not the insurances to be maintained?

But I think he would have consented to accept his liberty with three hundred a year,—so great to him was the relief.