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Updated: June 20, 2025
Would you still believe in her, and would you still marry her?" "Great heavens! no." "Good. Then I tell you what I will do for you, and it will perhaps give you some idea of how deeply I feel in the matter; I will sacrifice myself." "Sacrifice yourself?" "Yes. I mean that I will this very evening propose to Madeline Croston under your nose, and I bet you five pounds she accepts me."
When her old lover went away reluctantly to dress for dinner on the previous day, Madeline Croston sat down to have a good think, and the result was not entirely satisfactory. It had been very pleasant to see him, and his passionate declaration of enduring love thrilled her through and through, and even woke an echo in her own breast.
Now oblige me by stepping behind those velvet curtains a la 'School for Scandal' and listening in perfect silence to my conversation with Lady Croston. She does not know that you are here, so she will not miss you. You can escape when you have had enough of it, for there is a door through on to the landing, and as we came up I noticed that it was ajar.
Sir Eustace, for all his apparent worldliness and cynicism, was a good fellow at heart, and cherished a warm affection for his awkward, taciturn brother. He also cherished a great dislike for Lady Croston, whose character he thoroughly understood.
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