A Fair Fraud — page 24: what you’re looking at

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eae ee 2 eee ‘ A Fair Fraud 13 was that she never revealed her folly to a living soul. Once she was raised to a seventh heaven of delight when it fell to her blessed lot to sew a button on to his glove. He was just starting off from the front door for the meet when the button came off.. Mrs Drury and two or three ladies had assembled in the hall to see him mount and start, for Captain Kenneth was a spoiled and petted individual whom everybody made much of, and Marion had crept shyly out behind the rest. He was buttoning his last glove button, when the horse gave a plunge and the button came off, and the captain uttered a_ short and naughty word below his breath. There was a chorus of consternation at the untoward accident. ‘Oh—h—h!’ cried his mother, and, ‘Oh—h —h!’ echoed the ladies in fashionable attire, but none of them offered to sew on the button. ‘Then Marion sprang forward. ‘May I sew it on? I won't be a minute,’ she cried, reaching up her hands for the injured article. ‘Oh, will you, little’un? That's awfully good of you!’ said her divinity; he often called her © ‘little ‘un.’ She fled with the buttonless glove into the house. She could have lingered hours over ElOOO© oO C' Q)