A Final Triumph; or, A Lady Bachelor — page 147: what you’re looking at

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COMEDY. 145 © CHAPTER XIII. COMEDY. I HAD not explained to Laurence, but later he was: called into the room, and to him George and J told ail. The two friends were left together. Laurence had other revelations to make. Much he knew, and more I had told him. When I rejoined them, George knew all, and he extended his hand to me in silence. In that grasp, how ever, volumes were spoken. I had a plan to disclose. It met the approval of Lau- rence, and George was compelled to agree to it, and I re- turned to my summer home alone. That evening I sought an interview with the aunt of Eloise. We walked out under the trees) My manner was se grave, and yet so expressive of suppressed eagerness, that: my companion became quite nervous. I really think she believed, for a moment, that I was about to make a fool of myself; that, encouraged by her kindly confidence, & was really going to make a proposal. I led her to a rustic seat. 1 could see her face was pales and read that she was framing the words which would, im the gentlest manner, dispel my wild hopes. I enjoyed the: mistake, and will confess, for a moment or two played upon her naturally aroused apprehension; but after an in- terval I said abruptly: ** George Edicott is in New York.’’ The lady uttered an exclamation akin to a cry of alarm. and her pallor became more marked, her agitation more Gomichbooks (E(0)