A Fair Fraud — page 81: what you’re looking at

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70 A Fair Fraud is @ man’s man essentially. He is only com- ing down to shoot the governors pheasants ; that’s al] he cares about. Everything else is nought to him.’ So Marion received her orders to occupy the vacant place, and from what she had heard Captain Drury say about his friend Mr Naylor, she did not look forward at all to his com- pulsory companionship, nor to the ordeal of the evening's entertainment, During the course of the day, which was a busy one to her, she had very little time to think over the events of the morning. She had to arrange the flowers on the dinner-table, to give out the sweets for dessert, to run numerous messages between her aunt's morning- room and the kitchen. Then there was a little alteration in her own dress to be made, and she had to stand still whilst Mrs Drury’s maid fitted on the bodice and pulled and pinched and stuck pins into the defective portions of it, Then came dressing time, and she had not as yet decided upon any course of action. Nevertheless, there was one thing fixed in her mind, and that was that she would not be the instrument of destroying her cousin’s happiness, If Hester Lane loved him, no word of hers should prevent him from marrying her. If, on the other hand, she had reason to believe that Hester looked upon him only GOMMGIOO oO C' Q)