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Updated: May 16, 2025
'We ought to have told him the moment we saw that he was pleased with her; but, foolish child, she would not let us, said Mr Gaskoin to his wife.
'I see what it is: she is nervous about a little deception we have been practising on you. 'A deception! 'Why, you see, my dear fellow, when I told Frances that you were coming here, she objected to meeting you' 'Indeed! On what account? 'You have never suspected anything? said Mr Gaskoin, scarcely repressing his laughter. 'Suspected anything? No.
'That is possible, certainly; but as Major Elliott is only coming for a day or two, I think we might obviate that difficulty, by introducing you as my husband's niece, Fanny Gaskoin. What do you say? You can declare yourself whenever you please, or keep the secret till he goes, if you prefer it.
A woman who could act as she had done, or as she appeared to have done, was no wife for Henry Elliott. There is no saying, but it is just possible, that an entire confidence placed in Mr Gaskoin might have led to a happier issue; but her own conviction that her position was irrecoverable, her hopelessness and her pride, closed her lips.
Still, if they did, a few blushes and a hearty laugh were likely to be the only consequences of the disclosure; so the little plot was duly framed, and successfully executed; Major Elliott not entertaining the most remote suspicion that this beautiful, fascinating Fanny Gaskoin was his own fiancée.
'It is one there is no use in discussing till I am accepted, returned Major Elliott; 'and I confess that is a point I am too anxious about to think of any other. 'Prepare yourself, said Mrs Gaskoin to Frances: 'Major Elliott has declared himself to my husband, and will doubtless take an opportunity of speaking to you in the course of the evening.
Mrs Gaskoin's was a different sort of house to the Dunbars'. It was not gay, for the place was retired, and Mrs Gaskoin being in ill health, they saw little company; but they were young, cheerful, and accomplished people, and in their society Frances soon forgot the vexations she had left behind her.
The room is divided into compartments which the visitor should examine in their regular order of rotation. He will begin therefore, of course with the Before the first pilaster let the visitor notice at once a small seated statue of Cybele or Fortune, from Athens, presented to the nation by J.S. Gaskoin, Esq.
If your aversion continues, you need not marry him; but my husband tells me he's charming; and in point of character, I know no one whom he estimates so highly. But Frances objected, that she should feel so embarrassed and awkward. 'In short, you apprehend that you will appear to a great disadvantage, said Mrs Gaskoin.
In accordance with this new state of her feelings, she resolved to alter her behaviour, in order to dissipate as quickly as possible the erroneous impression of the family; whilst, at the same time, she privately made arrangements for cutting short her visit, and anticipating the period of her removal to the house of Mrs Gaskoin, betwixt whom and the Dunbars the interval of her friends' absence in Russia was to be divided.
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