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Updated: June 16, 2025
"You have never properly come out, you know, dear," she said; "but at Southminster you will be seen by everybody; and, as I daresay Lady Ellangowan will take you under her wing, you'll be seen to the best advantage." "Do you think Lady Ellangowan's wing will make any difference in me?" inquired Vixen. "It will make a great deal of difference in the Southminster set," replied Mrs.
Ellangowan's troubles began to be spoken o' publicly, and sair vexed she was; for she was proud o' her family.
A circumstance arrested Ellangowan's progress on the highroad to ruin. This was his marriage with a lady who had a portion of about four thousand pounds. Nobody in the neighbourhood could conceive why she married him and endowed him with her wealth, unless because he had a tall, handsome figure, a good set of features, a genteel address, and the most perfect good-humour.
The occupations which he followed encroached, in their opinion, upon the article of Ellangowan's gentry, and he found it necessary gradually to estrange himself from their society, and sink into what was then a very ambiguous character, a gentleman farmer.
"Marry, hang her, brock!" said the counsellor, borrowing an exclamation from Sir Toby Belch, "just the month in which Ellangowan's distresses became generally public. But let us hear what she has done." Mr. Protocol accordingly, having required silence, began to read the settlement aloud in a slow, steady, business like tone.
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