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He grew a beard, which added to his seeming age, but suited with his features; his carriage was more upright than of old. A week or two after this, Narramore sent a friendly note "Shall I see you at Birching's on Sunday? My wife will be there, to meet Miss Marks and some other people. Come if you can, old fellow. I should take it as a great kindness." And Hilliard went.
"But it's the fact," she persisted, with something like irritation. "But for me, you would have gone into the architect's office with enough to live upon comfortably for a time." "That's altogether unlikely," Hilliard declared. "But for you, it's improbable that I should have gone to Birching's at all.
With Narramore he had of late resumed the friendship interrupted by Miss Birching's displeasure, for that somewhat imperious young lady, now the wife of an elderly ironmaster, moved in other circles; and Hilliard's professional value, which was beginning to be recognised by the Birchings otherwise than in the way of compliment, had overcome the restraints at first imposed by his dubious social standing.
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