A Fair Fraud — page 152: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER X ‘Sune has refused me, Marion, and I am the most miserable man on earth!’ Kenneth Drury was sitting by himself by the light of the fire in his mother’s boudoir, and Marion, who had come into the room to look for a book, found him there. It was half-past six—the sportsmen had returned, and tea was going on in the hall; but Kenneth had slunk away by himself, and had escaped into the solitude of his mother’s room. Marion knelt down on the hearthrug and poked the dying fire into a blaze. By its light she saw how wretched and woebegone he looked. He had not changed his shooting clothes, but had just flung himself down as he had come in, all wet and muddy, into the satin-covered chair. ‘I can’t help telling you about it, dear little ‘un,’ went on her cousin, ‘for somehow you've always been like a sister to me. I could bear it better, I think, if I was sure that she did not care for me; but I am convinced that she does I4t COMNMUC JOO <S (GO) uu