Richard Forrest, Bachelor — page 82: what you’re looking at

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“LOOKS LIKE FATE.” 13 band. From all appearances Gordon Russell is the man she thinks will about fill the bill, and she has got all her feel- ers out to catch him.”’ ‘*Does he know it?”’ : ‘‘Not much! Dolly’s too cute for that. She knows how to play him, and the consequence is, he’s terribly gone on her.’ | ‘‘Poor fellow, he’s a callow youth, too.”’ ‘““‘By no means, ‘poor fellow,’ Gordon hasn’t a red, and he is as stubborn asamule. Dolly has plenty of tin and thinks she’s dead in love. The result will be—if it does amount toanything—as comfortable a marriage all around as one generally sees nowadays.”’ ‘But Dolly will make a pretty good fight for her own way, and you know it isn’t always the kind of way one ap- proves of in a wife,’’ suggested Arthur. ‘‘Hol-de-rol. Depend upon it, every woman is bound to meet her master one of these days, and she is willing enough to give in to the right one, you know, and if Rus- sell happens to be Dolly’s fate, why, he’ll find a pudding chuck full of plums. Here’s the club. Coming in? No? Then I must say good-by for the present. ’”’ Gomichbooks-com