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7. FROM THE TWENTY-SECOND TO THE TWENTY-SEVENTH OF NOVEMBERBut the next morning Manston found that he had been forgetful of another matter, in naming the following Monday to his wife for the journey. The fact was this. A letter had just come, reminding him that he had left the whole of the succeeding week open for an important business engagement with a neighbouring land-agent, at that gentleman's residence thirteen miles off. The particular day he had suggested to his wife, had, in the interim, been appropriated by his correspondent. The meeting could not now be put off. So he wrote again to his wife, stating that business, which could not be postponed, called him away from home on Monday, and would entirely prevent him coming all the way to fetch her on Sunday night as he ha