The Dugdale Millions — page 42: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER iV. A GOOD FRIEND, THE path called by Mr. Stanton the short cut was well worn, and Dick found little trouble in following it. He had never visited the country-place of Mr. Hetlow. Having received a delicate and well guarded hint, in the past, that it was hardly the proper thing for a clerk to seek to enter his employer’s house upon terms of social equality, and which, in his conceit, he had attributed to a desire to separate him from Bessie, Dick determined he would make the call with all the ceremony he could. To reach the main entrance he was compelled to follow the paths which led by the south elevation of the dwelling and past the windows of the apartments dedicated to the occupancy of the daughter of the house. It so happened that at the exact moment he was passing, the daughter of the house was gazing from the window in gloomy discon- tent. It was with sensations she could not have analyzed had she tried, that she recognized Dick’s manly form, following the winding paths the land- scape gardener, with strict adherence to the Hogarth- ian rule, had laid down. Asa matter of fact she did not stop to analyze them but hurried out to determine whether he had had the audacity to seek her in so bold a way. What she did learn was that Dick asked for her father as he was turned into. the reception room, and she heard the servant reply that he would see whether Mr. Hetlow wasin the house. She knew her father 32 Comicloo <S C@ 3