A Fair Fraud — page 280: what you’re looking at

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A Fair Fraud — 269 back in her brougham and fetched Hester home and established her in the pretty spare room that was just set in order, and which no ‘previous visitor had occupied. It must be confessed that this action of ‘Good Samaritan’ nature, which was conceived and ‘carried out on the spur of the moment, caused our little bride some moments of anxiety, from the fact that Naylor was at Lincoln’s Inn pursuing his daily avocations, and that Hester’s enormous boxes filling up his front hall were his first intimation of her presence in his house, when he let himself in with his latch key after his day’s work. ‘Hallo! what's the meaning of all this?’ said Mr Naylor, eyeing the trunks with sur- prise. Marion, who had been on the watch for him, and who was, no doubt, a little bit nervous, issued from the dining-room door hard by. ‘They are Hester's boxes,’ she said quickly and a little defiantly; ‘they are going to be taken up to her room presently.’ ‘Hester has come here to stay, then ?’ ‘Yes; the doctor said she might be moved. | You see I couldn't possibly leave her to go back to those horrible lodgings. She isn’t fit — to be left alone either, poor dear. So I just packed up her things and sent them off ina cab and brought her back in the brougham.’ — ElLOOO 4 (G' O)