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| Theo. “ Really?”

Tra. “Yes, really, if you are going to pay the
money ; but not really, if you don’t.”

Theo. “Well, I should like to see it,”

Tra. (to himself). “Here is another trouble. I’m
no sooner off one shoal than I am on to another.”

Theo. “What are you stopping for? Call some
one.”

Tra. “But, sir, there are ladies there ; and we
ought to find out whether they are willing to have
the house seen.” ;

Theo. “Very good; go and inquire. I will wait
for you here.”

Tra. “Confound the old man! how he ruins all
my little schemes. But here comes our neighbour
Sinio himself. Sinio, my master is very anxious to
see your house.”

Stnio. “But it is not for sale.”

Tra. “Tam quite aware of that; but the old man
wants to build apartments for the women, with a
bath and a colonnade.”

Siz. “What is he dreaming about?”

Tra. “You see he wants his son to marry as soon
as maybe. So he is anxious to build a new women’s
apartment. He has heard an architect say that your
house is astonishingly well built, and he wants to
make his on the same pattern. It is a capital place
in summer, he hears.”

Six. “Oh, indeed! I know the sun is like a

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