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He was a fat-faced, rotund young squire a bully where he might be, and an obedient creature enough where he must be good-humoured when not interfered with; fond of the table, and brimful of all the jokes of the county, the accent of which just seasoned his speech. He had somehow plunged into a sort of half-engagement with Miss Carrington.
Henceforth it had a part in every invention of my boyish imagination. I was therefore not undesirous of keeping the half-engagement I had made with Mrs Wilson, but it was not she that drew me.
"So he is. But this is different. I'm going to look for the Boy at Monte Carlo. What I'm hoping is, that after all he may keep the half-engagement he made to meet me there." "When?" "On the night after my arrival for a dinner at the Hôtel de Paris, to be given in honour of him and his sister." "You think he will?" "It's worth going on the chance."
He was a fat-faced, rotund young squire a bully where he might be, and an obedient creature enough where he must be good-humoured when not interfered with; fond of the table, and brimful of all the jokes of the county, the accent of which just seasoned his speech. He had somehow plunged into a sort of half-engagement with Miss Carrington.
I was made welcome there, it is true; but Julia was not unembarrassed and at home with me. The half-engagement renewed between us rendered it difficult to us both to meet on the simple ground of friendship and relationship.
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