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They lifted their hats. "You in town!" said Mr. Beacon. "In town?" echoed Mr. Dinks. "Town?" murmured Mr. Wetherley. "Town," said Miss Waring, with her eyes sparkling. "Where did you come from? I thought you were all at Saratoga," she continued. "It's stupid there," said Mr. Beacon. "Quite stupid," echoed Mr. Dinks. "Stupid," murmured Mr. Wetherley.
"An amiable fellow," said Fanny, as he disappeared; "but quite a remarkable fool." Mr. Zephyr Wetherley, still struggling with the hand problem, approached Miss Fanny, and remarked that it was very warm. "You're cool enough in all conscience, Mr. Wetherley," said she. "My dear Miss Newt, 'pon honor," replied Zephyr, beginning to be very red, and wiping his moist brow.
Miss Fanny sat looking at the young man with her black eyes so calmly that she seemed to him to be sitting a great way off in a cool darkness. Miss Fanny was not fond of Mr. Wetherley, although she had seen plainly enough the indications of his feeling for her. This morning he was well gloved and booted. His costume was unexceptionable.
Don't mistake any thing that I have done as an indication of " "Oh, Miss Newt," interrupted Zephyr, "how can you say such things? Hear me but one word. I assure you that I most deeply, tenderly, truly " "Mr. Wetherley," said Fanny, putting down the book and speaking very firmly, "I really can not sit still and hear you proceed. You are laboring under a great misapprehension.
Wetherley," said Fanny Newt, darker and cooler than ever, "it is useless to prolong this conversation. I can not consent to hear you declare that " "But you haven't heard me declare it," replied Zephyr, vehemently. "It's the very thing I am trying to do, and you won't let me. You keep cutting me off just as I am saying how I "
Boniface Newt & Co. have gone to Saratoga no cathedral left, because some plastering has tumbled off an upper stone no forest left, because a few leaves have whirled away. Nobody in town, because Mrs. Boniface Newt & Co. have gone to Saratoga, and are doing their part of the world's work there. Mr. Alfred Dinks, Mr. Zephyr Wetherley, and Mr.
Mellish Whitloe, and sent her the loveliest fans, and buttons, and little trinkets, which he selected at Marquand's. But when the year came round the bill was inclosed to Mr. Wetherley, senior, who, after a short and warm interview with his son Zephyr, inclosed it in turn to Whitloe himself; who smiled, and paid it, and advised his wife to buy her own jewelry in future.
Sligo Moultrie before her marriage. The elegant youth of the town gradually fell off from frequenting Abel's rooms, for he always proposed cards, and the stakes were enormous; which was a depressing circumstance to young gentlemen who mainly depended upon the paternal purse. Such young gentlemen as Zephyr Wetherley, who was for a long time devoted to young Mrs.
"You need go no further, Sir," said Miss Newt, coldly, rising and standing by the table; while Zephyr Wetherley, red and hot and confused, crushed his handkerchief into a ball, and swept his hand through his hair, wagging his foot, and rubbing his fingers together. "I understand, Sir, what you wish to say, and I desire to tell you only " "Just what I don't want to hear! Oh dear me!
Poor Mr. Zephyr Wetherley! He was one of the rank and file of society one of the privates, so to speak, who are mentioned in a mass after a ball, as common soldiers are mentioned after a battle. He entered the room and bowed. Mrs. Newt seeing that it was one of her daughter's visitors, left the room.
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