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"Well, she told me that you were a very fascinating young man," answered Katherine, with a sigh. "Really. And did after-acquaintance corroborate that statement?" "I never had occasion to tell her she was mistaken." "What else did she say? Didn't mention anything about my prospects or financial standing in any way?" "No; we did not touch on that subject." "Come, now, you cannot evade the question.
"The first time I had the honour of meeting your grace, I rendered yourself, and more particularly the Lady Laura, a slight service, a very slight one, it is true, but yet sufficient to make you think, yourself, that I was entitled to claim your after-acquaintance, and to justify your reproach for not coming to your box at the theatre.
If my memory does not betray me, this charming out-door fancy-scene was Keats's first introduction to Chaucer. Certain I am that the "Troilus and Cresseide" was an after-acquaintance; and clearly do I remember his approbation of the favorite passages that I had marked.
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