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Several of Sir Lawrence's -- as we must call him now -- new neighbors had attended the funeral, and his pleasant but subdued manner impressed them so favorably that they were ready to give him and his wife a cordial greeting when they came to live among them.
"We always felt for your uncle," said old Lord Milworth, as he shook the young baronet heartily by the hand; "but, you see, he lived such a secluded life that we did not know him well enough to miss him. But you and your beautiful wife will be great acquisitions, Sir Lawrence, and I hope we shall shortly have the pleasure of welcoming you to Loamshire."