The Dugdale Millions — page 93: what you’re looking at

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A FATEFUL ARRIVAL, 83 ‘**Why, if he had mounted that coronet at the first dinner, all the women, from you down to the scullery maid would have been contemplating the tip end of his polished boots in adoration.’ *‘You’re positively insulting.’’ “He'll lose the game through his ignorance of the weakness of the natives.’ ‘*And you expect me to be your friend after such abuse?’’ ‘I promise you I shan’t inform him. Magnanimity is my strong point, but there is a limit—a limit even to mine.’ **There ought to be a limit to your foolish tongue. Let us go over to Bessie. Perhaps you may meet him.”’ ‘*O Heavens, no.’’ **Afraid of him?”’ “Afraid of him? No. But it is against my Ameri- can principles to encourage nobiemen by recognition of their existence.”’ ‘‘Really! I am quite sure if Lord Merrimount could hear you, he would be crushed.”’ ‘*T perceive, Wallis, and I greatly regret it, that the title of that misguided young man trips off your tongue with a lingering unctuousness, as if you were loathe to lei. 1c oO, ‘‘Will you go with me? I dare you to go!”’ ‘‘T will rise tc heights of moral grandeur. I will be dared.”’ ‘‘The American citizen, as represented by you, seems to be timid.”’ ‘*T will not be ridiculed into descending from my high moral perch. But I will compromise with you. I’ll write a note to Mr. Hetlow, and ask if he will receive me,’ Dick suddenly became very sober. ‘To be sensible again,’’ he continued, ‘‘I have a reason, apart from any consideration of Lord Merri- mount for making my intercourse with Mr. Hetlow, CoMmicloo S C@ 3}