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Dobbin, who was thus vigorously besieged, was in the meanwhile in a state of the most odious tranquillity. He used to laugh when the young fellows of the regiment joked him about Glorvina's manifest attentions to him. "Bah!" said he, "she is only keeping her hand in she practises upon me as she does upon Mrs. Tozer's piano, because it's the most handy instrument in the station.
"Never speak of that day again," Emmy cried out, so contrite and humble that William turned off the conversation by his account of Glorvina and dear old Peggy O'Dowd, with whom he was sitting when the letter of recall reached him. "If you hadn't sent for me," he added with a laugh, "who knows what Glorvina's name might be now?"
A gentle little woman in black, with large eyes and brown hair, seldom speaking, save when spoken to, and then in a voice not the least resembling Miss Glorvina's a soft young mother tending an infant and beckoning the Major up with a smile to look at him a rosy-cheeked lass coming singing into the room in Russell Square or hanging on George Osborne's arm, happy and loving there was but this image that filled our honest Major's mind, by day and by night, and reigned over it always.
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