She felt she was now near her
boy, and, nothing doubting her ability to rescue him from his perilous situation,
she breathed a fervent prayer for his deliverance; and bending her steps towards
the tavern in question, revolved within her mind as she walked along the best
means of accomplishing her purpose. There it was—to be borrowed. Grandmothers and grandfathers and uncles and aunts … to love and to coddle
lonely little girls. Kneebone made no effort to check the
unreasonable merriment of his companions, but rather seemed to encourage it. Who knows?—on the analogy of “Squiggles” she might come to call
him “Mangles!”
“I don’t think I can ever marry any one,” she said, and fell suddenly into
another set of considerations that perplexed her for a time. ”
John introduced her to couple after couple, a dizzying
array of new people that she could not catalogue in her
memory quickly enough. To have sprung this upon them
to-night would have been worth a thousand pounds. ’
‘Yes, she duped me finely,’ agreed Gerald.
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