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Cox thought it might be well not to ratify her engagement with Mr. Bertram till after they should reach Southampton. What if Biffin the respectable Biffin should again come forward! And so they went on for a few days longer. Bertram, when they were together, called her Annie, and once again asked her whether she loved him.
It is one thing to ride into the lists on a prancing steed, caparisoned with embroidered trappings, worked by the fair hands of your lady-love, and with the trumpets braying, and the populace shouting, and the Queen of beauty smiling sweet approval of your prowess: but it is quite another thing to walk up and down a dusty country road, with the wind biting like some ravenous animal at the tip of your nose, and no more consciousness of your legs and arms than if you were a Miss Biffin.
Before she went to South Africa Miss Beveridge had executed several commissions for Cecil Rhodes and others living in that country. Her mother is now the Countess von Wrede, her home being in Europe, where her daughter has spent much time. She has married the second time, an American, Mr. Branson, who resides at Johannesburg, in the Transvaal. <b>BIFFIN, SARAH.</b> 1784-1850.
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