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CHAPTER XXXVII.

EXEUNT OMNES.

UR characters are all a month older than they were when the last-described adventures and conversations occurred, and a great number of the personages of our story have chanced to re-assemble at the little country town where we were first introduced to them. Frederic Lightfoot, formerly maître-d'hôtel in the service of Sir Francis Clavering, of Clavering Park, Bart., has begged leave to inform the nobility and gentry of -shire that he has taken that well-known and comfortable hotel, the "Clavering Arms," in Clavering, where he hopes for the continued patronage of the gentlemen and families of the county. "This ancient and well-established

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house," Mr. Lightfoot's manifesto states, "has been repaired and decorated in a style of the greatest comfort. Gentlemen hunting with the Dumplingbeare hounds will find excellent stabling and loose boxes for horses at the Clavering Arms.' A commodious billiard-room has been attached to the hotel, and the cellars have been furnished with the choicest wines and spirits, selected, without regard to expense, by F. L. Commercial gentlemen will find the Clavering Arms' a most

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