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GUY MANNERING.

CHAPTER XII.

——————My imagination
Carries no favour in it but Bertram's;
I am undone; there is no living, none
If Bertram be away.———

At the hour which he had appointed in the preceding evening, the indefatigable lawyer was seated by a good fire, and a pair of wax candles, with a velvet cap upon his head, and a quilted silk nightgown on his person, busy arranging his memoranda of proofs and indications concerning the murder of Frank Kennedy. An express had also been dispatched to Mr. Mac-Morlan, requesting his attendance at Woodbourne as soon as possible, upon business of importance. Dinmont, fatigued with the events of the evening

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