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On the same evening, in a stately chamber of a noble old mansion of Elizabeth's
time, situated in Southampton Fields, two persons were seated. There was a huge desk of heavily carved ebony at one end, and at the centre, a
couple of straight-backed chairs stood before a great fireplace at the outer wall,
flanked by two bookshelves with casement windows above. 9. ’
‘You see, I am of them,’ she said seriously, ‘but not with them—yet. “An uncle in New York is
dead, and has left him loads of money. We were going at a mad pace. He seemed resigned
but cheerful, and held frequent and serious discourses with the ordinary, who felt
satisfied of his sincere penitence. ’
‘Hélas, poor you,’ Melusine rejoined sarcastically. . “I’d give anything,” he remarked, “to see our little Vee happily and
comfortably married. She reached a tiny yellow-fronted cottage covered with flowering creepers, and
entered the front room by the wide-open window. It saved me the
bother of being studied.
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