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I've never had so much as a hint from her until I received this absurd scrawl an hour ago." Miss Fossett produced from her bag a letter written in pencil. "There can be no harm in your hearing it," was Miss Fossett's excuse; "it will give you an idea of the state of the poor thing's mind." The tea-drinkers left their cups and gathered round her.
He was told that old Fossett's daughter would have a very fine fortune; that she was a strong-minded young lady, who governed her father, and would choose for herself; and accordingly he devoted himself to Arabella the whole of the evening. The effect produced on the mind of this ill-fated woman by her dazzling admirer was as sudden as it proved to be lasting.
"To something idiotic and incongruous that will make her life a misery to her." Somerville, the briefless, held that in the absence of all data such conclusion was unjustifiable. "If it had been to anything sensible," was Miss Fossett's opinion, "she would not have kept me in the dark about it, to spring it upon me like a bombshell.
"From what I have seen," replied Miss Fossett, "it's just the clever people as regards this particular matter who do make fools of themselves." Unfortunately Miss Fossett's judgment proved to be correct. On being introduced a fortnight later to Miss Ramsbotham's fiance, the impulse of Bohemia was to exclaim, "Great Scott!
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