rêver reached the porch & saw before her Giles Cousins with a smile of satisfaction softening his rugged coun tenance his good wife peeking his shoulder, and Mr. Bariton &r M. Kinlay, in the back,

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London Published by Richard Bentley, 1846.

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HIS GRACE

THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE,

In token of sincere gratitude for many kindnesses received at his hands, and of unfeigned admiration for his refined taste, his active benevolence, and his wide-reaching sympathy,—that sympathy which at all seasons, and more especially in times like the present, forms the best and safest link between the different classes of society,—

THESE HOMELY SKETCHES

are most respectfully inscribed by

THE AUTHOR.