A Fair Fraud — page 45: what you’re looking at

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34 A Fair Fraud looked up at him rather affectionately, I thought. I almost fancy she is fond of him, and he—he may very likely be attached to her. I think it is highly probable.’ ‘Do you suppose his parents would allow such a thing for a moment?’ cried Mrs Lane, contemptuously. ‘They adore him; he is a kind of divinity to them, poor old things! and she is nothing but Mrs Lane’s companion. They would pretty soon bundle her out of their house if they found out anything of that sort about her.’ Hetty Lane got, up suddenly and stood facing her mother. She was an inch or two the taller of the two, and there was something rather threatening in her attitude as she stuod looking down at her parent. Mrs Lane quailed a little bit under the straight fire of those clear blue eyes. ‘And don’t you think,’ she said _ slowly, ‘that Mr and Mrs Drury would bundle me out of their house if they found out one or two things about me? It’s bad, I daresay, to be a poor companion, but I should say it is fifty times worse to be an impostor, and that’s what 7 am, you know, my dear mother!’ And then in absolute silence Miss Lane went away to her own bedroom, shutting to the door of communication betwee tie two rooms, GOMMGIOO oO C' Q)