The Dugdale Millions — page 92: what you’re looking at

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82 THE DUGDALE MILLIONS. make a remark looks at me as if I were a wild animal recently caught and tamed, and on the whole rather a Curiasity. “But he syery nice” ‘*Has he proposed to Miss Hetlow yet?’’ ‘‘Why don’t you ask if he telegraphed for her hand when he reached Sandy Hook? It would be quite as sensible.”’ ‘‘How long has he been here?”’ Pour days,. ‘Wallis, with his advantages and under the same roof i: ‘*Added to your advantages of goodness and sweet: ness and fine clothes, you would have married Bessie in that time.”’ Pe tecisely. & ‘‘Mr. Mason, I admire you very much. Your confi- dence in your own powers 1s charming.”’ ‘‘T wish Miss Hetlow was of your mind. But in face of this great and immediate danger, what are we to do?”’ PV or Sls yo. ‘‘No; you swore fidelity to me in life er death— blood or war. You cannot desert my colors on the first sight of the enemy. Wallis, I fear me greatly, that those bewitching black eyes of yours have been dazzled by the jewels of that coronet.’’ ‘‘Jewels! I haven’t seen any jewels yet.” ‘‘What? Do you mean to tell me that Lord Merri- mount has not been wearing his glittering coronet on his head, with a golden stick in his hand?”’ ‘‘How can you be so absurd! Of course not.” *‘Not once, eh! Wallis, we have him!” rlew? ‘‘We have him! A man who carries a glittering coronet around in his trunk, and doesn’t know that the place for it, in this country, of all countries, is on his head, is gone—he’s easily demolished.”’ **What nonsense are you talking?” CoMmicloo® S C@ 5}