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For, if such a thing were possible, I should desire you to rival even me in a liking for Margaret Hugonin. And speaking for myself, I can assure you that I have come long ago to regard her faults with the same leniency that I accord my own. We begin on a fine May morning in Colonel Hugonin's rooms at Selwoode, which is, as you may or may not know, the Hugonins' country-place.
Oh, Philanthropy, are thy protestations, then, all void and empty, and are thy noblest sentiments every one of 'em so full of sound and rhetoric, so specious, so delectable are these, then, but dicers' oaths!" Aloud, "I'm rather surprised, you know," he said, slowly, "that you take it just this way, Mrs. Haggage. I should have thought you'd have been sorry on on Miss Hugonin's account.
"You don't make a very noble figure, just now, do you?" she asked, with careful deliberation. "You were ready to sell yourself for Miss Hugonin's money, weren't you? And now you must take her without the money. Poor Felix! Ah, you poor, petty liar, who've over-reached yourself so utterly!" And again Kathleen began to laugh, but somewhat shrilly, somewhat hysterically.
And to Billy Woods, the Eagle meant identically the same thing, and I am sorry to say he began to suspect that the Eagle was really the audience to whom Miss Hugonin's friends so zealously played. Perhaps the misanthropy of Mr. Woods was not wholly unconnected with the fact that Margaret never looked at him. She'd show him! the fortune-hunter!
And in the most melodramatic and improbable fashion in the world they found it to be the last will and testament of Frederick R. Woods. "But but I don't understand," was Miss Hugonin's awed comment. "It's exactly like the other will, only why, it's dated the seventeenth of June, the day before he died!
He was gazing downward in careful consideration of three fat tortoise-shell pins and a surprising quantity of gold hair, which was practically all that he could see of Miss Hugonin's person; for that young lady had suddenly become a limp mass of abashed violet ruffles, and had discovered new and irresistible attractions in the mosaics about her feet.
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