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"He is said to be engaged to her," said the gentleman. "He is not engaged to her," said Floyd. Later on he was talking to Miss Dangerlie. He had taken her out of the throng. "Do you know who introduced me to you?" he asked. "Yes, Mrs. Drivington." "No, a little girl." "Who? Why, don't you remember! I am surprised. It was just in the doorway!" "Oh! yes, I remember well enough.
The drawer was closed, and the man turned away. "Do you know who that was?" asked someone of Floyd. "No, not the slightest idea." "That was young Router, the son of the great Router." "Who is the-great-Router?" "The great pork man. His son is the one who is so attentive to Miss Dangerlie." "I am glad he closed the drawer," said Floyd, quietly.
It was not long before Floyd began to be known more widely. He had schemes for the amelioration of the condition of the poor. They were pronounced quixotic; but he kept on. He said he got good out of them if no one else did. He began to go oftener and oftener down to the City, where Miss Dangerlie lived. He did not see a great deal of her; but he wrote to her.
The trunk, partly packed, stood open with the half-folded coat hanging over its edge and with the roses lying by its side. Floyd walked into the Club and, returning quietly the salutations of a group of friends, went over to a rack and drew out a newspaper file, with which he passed into another room. "Announcement of Engagement: Router and Dangerlie," was the heading on which his eye rested.
"Let me introduce you to a beautiful girl, Sarah Dangerlie," she said, and drew him through the throng toward a door, where he was presented to a tall and strikingly handsome girl and made his bow and a civil speech, to which the young lady responded with one equally polite and important.
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