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Yet Sir Richard was tolerated; nay, courted and toadied, because of his title. My wife was seated opposite to Miss Eve Flouncer, who was one of the strong-minded women. Indeed, I think it is but just to say of her that she was one of the strongest-minded women in the town. In her presence the strength of Mrs Bingley's mind dwindled down to comparative weakness.
I also noticed that Mrs Bingley sniffed impatiently; but I felt that I had a duty to perform, so with unalterable resolution I prepared to continue my address, when Miss Peppy, who had been nearly asleep during the greater part of the time I was speaking, suddenly said to Miss Flouncer
"No, Captain Bingley, I have made it a rule never to give charity from impulse; I always give, when I do give " "Ahem!" coughed Gildart slightly. "When I do give," repeated Miss Flouncer, "from principle, and after a careful examination of the merits of each particular case."
"Then I trust, my dear madam," said I, hasting to her relief by affording her an opportunity of being generous, "that you will allow me to put down your name as an annual subscriber." Miss Flouncer, being a very strong-minded woman, had recovered herself very suddenly, and replied with calm deliberation, accompanied by an undulation
Here she related the circumstances of the bank failure, and the evil consequences that followed, and were still pending over Kenneth and many of their other friends in Wreckumoft. "That's a sad business," said Gildart; "but I don't see how it can be mended. I fear me it is a case of `grin and bear it. And your aunt, Miss Puff, what of the adorable Miss Flouncer?" "She is now Lady Doles."
"The society is a most noble one," said Miss Flouncer, with a burst of enthusiasm. "It is," said I, much pleased with her warmth of manner; "I think at least if my memory does not play me false you are a contributor to its funds, are you not?" "Well, a no. I have not the pleasure a " Miss Flouncer was evidently a little put out.
"Well then," said I, addressing myself to Miss Flouncer, "a month or so before the lawyer brought Mrs Gaff tidings of her good fortune, her brother-in-law John Furby was drowned. The brave fellow, who, you are aware, was coxswain of our lifeboat, and has helped to save many a life since he was appointed to that post of danger, went off in his own fishing-boat one day.
Miss Flouncer smiled and undulated in order to express her readiness to listen; at the same time she glanced at Sir Richard, who, I observed, was sound asleep.
About three weeks ago the lawyer came here to see Mrs Gaff, and make arrangements and inquiries, and in the course of a short time this poor woman will be in possession of ten thousand pounds." "It will be the ruin of her, I fear," said Sir Richard. "No doubt of it," observed Miss Flouncer, emphatically. "It is always the way," said my wife. "D'ye think it would ruin you?" whispered Gildart.
"Indeed I do," continued Miss Peppy with much animation; "Mrs Gaff, the fisherman's wife, has got a fortune left her amounting to ten thousand pounds, which, at five per something or other, as my brother tells me, yields an annual income of 500 pounds." "But who left it to her, and how?" asked Sir Richard. "Ah, who left it, and how?" echoed Miss Flouncer.
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