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The whole room held its breath as she sailed in, with a rustle of amber silk skirts. Her hair was piled high against a tortoise-shell comb, making her statelier still. Furnese of Misleham, who was chairman that year, came gaping to greet her. The others stared and stood still.
The next morning I heard that there had been extreme deep play, and that Harry Furnese went drunk from White's at six o'clock, and won the dear memorable sum of one thousand guineas.
Thus unchoicely Furnese of Misleham had expressed the wish that fathered such a thought. So at the first possible moment after the last munch and loud swallow with which old Grandfather Vine, who was unfortunately the slowest as well as the largest eater, announced repletion, all the chairs were pushed back on the drugget and a row of properly impassive faces confronted Mr.
"Well she's got herself talked about over two men that she hasn't took, and now she's took a man that she hasn't got herself talked about over." "Anyways, I'm glad of it," said Furnese, "she's a mare that's never been präaperly broken in, and now at last she's got a man to do it." "Poor feller, Alce. I wonder how he'll take it." Alce took it very well.
Vine had done comparing her electro-plated cruet most favourably with the one presented by Mrs. Furnese and the ignoble china object that Mrs. Cobb had had the meanness to send, and Mrs. Bates had recovered from the shock of finding that her tea-cosy was the exact same shape and pattern as the one given by Mrs. Gain.
The first impression was that she had suddenly taken fright at the prospect of old-maidenhood, and had grabbed the first man she could get, even though he was young enough to be her son. "He ain't twenty-one till Michaelmas," said Vine at the Woolpack. "She's always liked 'em young," said Furnese.
"It's her own fault," said Prickett at the Woolpack, "and serve her right for getting shut of old Fuller, and then getting stuck on this furrin heathen notion of Spanish sheep. Anyone could have told her as the lambs ud be too big and the ewes could never drop them safe she might have known it herself, surelye." "It's her looker that should ought to have known better," said Furnese.
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