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Updated: June 16, 2025
'I don't think that will be any obstacle to your wishes, answered Mr Gaskoin, with an arch smile. 'If you can find Fanny in the humour, I'll undertake to answer for all the rest. As for her fortune, she'll have something at all events but that is a subject, I suppose, you are too much in love to discuss.
'My reason for mentioning the subject so early is, said he, 'that, in the first place, I cannot prolong my visit; I have already broken two engagements, and now, however unwillingly, I must be off: and, in the second place, I felt myself bound to mention the subject to you before speaking to Miss Gaskoin, because you know how I am situated in regard to money-matters; and that I cannot, unfortunately, make such a settlement as may be expected by her friends.
'I cannot express how much I should dislike meeting him, she said to Mrs Gaskoin, to whom she thought it better to explain how she was situated. 'You must allow me to keep my room whilst he is here. 'If you are determined not to see him, I think you had better go back to the Dunbars for a little while, answered the hostess; 'but I really think you should stay, and let things take their course.
Mr and Mrs Gaskoin had quietly slipped out of the room; and conscious that the critical moment was come, she was making a nervous attempt to follow them, when a hand was laid on hers, and But it is quite needless to enter into the particulars: such scenes do not bear relating.
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