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"Not envy, sure! for if you gave me / Leave to take or to refuse / In earnest, do you think I'd choose / That sort of new love to enslave me? " / R. Browning
So, instead of going to Belfast, here was Colonel Keith actually taking a lodging and settling himself into it; nay, even going over to Avoncester on a horse-buying expedition, not merely for the Temples, but for himself.