A Fair Fraud — page 37: what you’re looking at

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26 A Fair Fraud ‘So much the better. I like small rooms— more cosy,’ and straightway, rather to Marion's consternation, they all trooped into the morn- ing-room, Mrs Drury leading the way. ‘Hallo! here’s Marion!’ exclaimed Captain Drury as the girl came shyly out of the embrasure of the window; she blushed a little, and looked the picture of embarrassment, ‘how are you, little ‘un?’ Mrs and Miss Lane simultaneously raised long-handled eyeglasses and surveyed her with interest—a proceeding scarcely calculated to set her at her ease. And Mrs Lane said, ‘I did not know you had a daughter, Mrs Drury. Your son never told me.’ ‘Miss Blake is my.adopted niece. Marion, dear, go and tell Horner to bring the tea in here instead of to the drawing-room, wiil you? and tell your uncle that Mrs and Miss Lane have arrived.’ Marion slipped thankfully away, and having obeyed her aunt's directions, she went up to her own room. Somchow that beautiful clear- voiced lady aroused in her a vague sense of antipathy and repulsion, whilst the daughter's beauty filled her with a dubious uneasiness. Marion was too young and ignorant of the world to understand why this should be so, and indeed she argued conscientiously with herself against the impression. Goo