The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 157: what you’re looking at

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134 REYNOLDS’ WORKS Octavian, warmly, for he believed in its sincerity. ‘It is all the more honourable, too, inasmuch as it is at the expense of a prejudice.’ “And Zoe— Mr. Armytage’s daughter—is really a beautiful girl,’’? proceeded the duke, — ‘ elegant, accom- plished, and well calculated to shine in any drawing-room. Come, my dear friend, I see that my counsel is not altogether thrown away upon you. We will have lunch now, and then go out for a ride. You can reflect at your leisure upon all that I have been suggesting.”’ ‘Yes,’ murmured Octavian, with another ill-repressed sigh, as he thought of the beautiful unknown whom he had seen on two or three occasions, and whose bashful loveliness had made more or less impression on his heart. Gomichbooks (E(0)