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'Well done, old Ethel! I'm glad to see you so like yourself. I remember when we thought Mrs. Hoxton's position very sublime. 'I never thought of positions! 'Never! I know that very well; and I am not thinking of it now, except as an adjunct to a very worthy man, whom Mary will admire to the depths of her honest heart, and who will make her very happy.
And seven years ago I began to hear of the young and public-spirited doctor and man of science, who had made himself a name and place in Hoxton, who had won the confidence of the people crowded in its unlovely streets, had worked for the poor, and the sick, and the children, and had now beaten the Tory member, and was Hoxton's Liberal representative in the new Parliament elected in January 1910, to deal with the Lords, after the throwing out of Lloyd George's famous Budget.
Meta inquired after a huge doll Dr. Hoxton's gift to Daisy, at the bazaar. "She is in Margaret's wardrobe," was the answer, "because Aubrey tied her hands behind her, and was going to offer her up on the nursery grate." "Oh, Aubrey, that was too cruel!" "No," returned Aubrey; "she was Iphigenia, going to be sacrificed." "Mary unconsciously acted Diana," said Ethel, "and bore the victim away."
Timid in her affection, she hardly dared to do more than kiss them, and whisper her pretty caressing words to each. There was no more time Dr. Hoxton's carriage was come to take up the bride.
"A fine pass we are come to!" cried Dr. May, half amused, half irate. "I should like to know what I should have said at your age if the head-master had asked me to dinner." "Papa is not so very fond of dining at Dr. Hoxton's," said Ethel. "A whipper-snapper schoolboy, who might be thankful to dine anywhere!" continued Dr. May, while the girls burst out laughing, and Norman looked injured.
"The Cleveland set will be sure to deal in frippery, and I have been looking over Mrs. Hoxton's stores, where I see quite enough for mere decoration. There are two splendid vases in potichomanie, in an Etruscan pattern, which are coming for me to finish." "Mrs. Taylor, at Cocksmoor, could do that for you," said Ethel.
'She will be married in Whitsun week, and as he is headmaster, they will live in Dr. Hoxton's house. Dear, good Mary, how glad I am that she is so full of happiness her letter quite brims over with it! I wonder if I may work anything to send her. 'I should like to send her some very beautiful thing indeed, cried Ella, with emphasis, and eyes dilating at some visionary magnificence.
He is facile princeps here in his own world, but we do not know how it may be when he is measured with public schoolmen, who have had more first-rate tutorship than poor old Hoxton's." "Ah! he says so, but I thought that was all his humility." "Better he should be prepared. If he had had all those advantages but it may be as well after all.
'Where's the latch-key? I must run down and put Cheviot out of his misery. 'It is eleven o'clock, he'll be gone to bed. 'Then I would forbid the banns. Where does he hang out? Has he got into old Hoxton's? 'No, it is being revivified. He is at Davis's lodgings. But I advise you not, a little suspense will do him good. 'One would think you had never been in love, said Harry, indignantly.
I tumbled about all night in a rage, when I thought how they had served me, and of Hoxton's believing it all, and how he might only half give in to your representation, and then I gloried in Anderson's coming down from his height, and being seen in his true colours. So it went on till morning came, and I got up.
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