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"Exactly," chimed in Aunt Dagon; "how did it come about?" "My dear Mrs. Newt," replied Mrs. Dinks, entirely overlooking the existence of Mrs. Dagon, "you know my son Alfred and your daughter Fanny. So do I. Do you believe that Alfred ran away with Fanny, or Fanny with Alfred. Theoretically, of course, the man does it. Do you believe Alfred did it?" Mrs. Dinks's tone was resolute. Mrs.
"Indeed!" replied the undaunted Fanny, "I have heard that love is blind, but I did not know that it was true of maternal love. Mr. Dinks's mother is not his confidante, then, I presume?" The bad passions of Mr. Dinks's mother's heart were like the heathen, and furiously raged together at this remark. She continued the fanning, and said, with a sickly smile,
This reflection secured an unusually ardent reception for Mrs. Dagon, who followed Mrs. Dinks's party, and who, having made her salutation to the hostess, said to Mr. Boniface Newt, her nephew, who accompanied her, "Now I'll go and stand by the pier-glass, so that I can rake the rooms.
There is trouble, she said to herself, as she heard Mrs. Dinks's reply. "Miss Wayne has been a recluse this winter," remarked Fanny, with infinite blandness. "Yes, she has had some kind of whim," replied Mrs. Dinks, shaking her shoulders as if to settle her dress. "We girls have all suspected, you know, of course, Mrs.
Fanny dreaded to hear a description of Hope Wayne. But Alfred's mind was resolved. The foolish youth answered with his heart in his mouth, and barely whispering, "If you will look in your glass to-night, you will see." The next moment Fanny's head had fallen into the waistcoat Alfred Dinks's arms were embracing her. He perceived the perfume from her abundant hair.
In fact, they would all be gainers by it; and nothing now remained but to devote herself to securing that result. The first step under the circumstances was clearly a visit to the Newts, and the ring which had sent Mrs. Newt from the room was Mrs. Dinks's. Mrs. Dagon was alone when Mrs. Dinks entered, and Mrs. Dagon was by no means sure, whatever she said to Nancy, that Mrs.
He was satisfied. He had come to the dinner that he might discover, in the freedom of soul which follows a feast, what Alfred Dinks's prospects really were, and what his father would do for him. Boniface Newt, upon coming to the store after the tête-
"I say, why the h " Mr. Dinks began again, and had advanced so far when he suddenly saw his cousin. "Hallo! what are you doing here?" he said to her abruptly, and in the half-sycophantic, half-bullying tone that indicates the feeling of such a man toward a person to whom he is under immense obligation. Alfred Dinks's real feeling was that Hope Wayne ought to give him a much larger allowance.
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