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Updated: June 19, 2025
Why not have a notice put up outside the door on these occasions: "Engaged"? Then the meanest intelligence would understand, and the meanest intelligence was really a thing one had to count with, in this blundering world! Hubert Temperley left Drumgarren suddenly. He said that he had business to attend to in town. "That foolish girl has refused him!" exclaimed Valeria, when she heard of it.
Temperley replied, a little impatiently. He had not found young Wilkins quick to catch his meaning during the two hours' ride, and it occurred to him that Miss Fullerton would have been a more interesting companion. He made a good many enquiries about her and her family, on the way back to Drumgarren.
They might retort that they never had felt nervous, but a letter has the same advantage as the pulpit: the adversary can never get up and contradict. "That ridiculous adversary, Harold Wilkins, is staying again at Drumgarren, and I hear from Mrs. Gordon that he thinks it very strange that I should see so much of so extraordinary a person as Miss Du Prel!
Hadria was with her mother, taking tea at Drumgarren, when Mrs. Gordon, catching the sounds of carriage wheels, announced that she was expecting Hubert and his sister for a visit. In another second, the travellers were in the drawing-room. Hubert's self-possession was equal to the occasion. He introduced his sister to Mrs. Fullerton and Hadria.
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