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"And who WAS your dear mamma?" said I: for Miss Crutty's respected parent had been long since dead, and I never heard her name mentioned in the family. Magdalen blushed, and cast down her eyes to the ground. "Mamma was a foreigner," at last she said. "And of what country?" "A German. Papa married her when she was very young: she was not of a very good family," said Miss Crutty, hesitating.
I instantly mounted the coach and flew to our village, to Mr. Crutty's, of course. It was next door to Doctor Bates's; but I had no business THERE. I found Magdalen in the garden. "Heavens, Mr. Stubbs!" said she, as in my new uniform I appeared before her, "I really did never such a handsome officer expect to see you." And she made as if she would blush, and began to tremble violently.
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