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But if he can have put by £20,000, he has done very well; don't you think so?" "Very well indeed." "I suppose I might have had one of them; I don't mind telling you in strictest confidence. But, goodness gracious, after I had once seen Kattie Forrester, there was no longer a doubt. I wish you'd tell me what you think about her." "About Miss Forrester?"
Miss Mary, why don't you come over this fine weather, and have tea with my girls and Kattie Forrester in the woods? You should take your chance while you have a young man willing to wait upon you." "I shall be quite delighted," said Blake, "and so will John Gordon." "Only that I shall be in London this time to-morrow," said Gordon. "That's nonsense. You are not going to Kimberley all at once.
I'm only just thirty, and it's a grand thing my tumbling into the living in this way." "I needn't go back because Mr Harbottle is dead." "But Kattie Forrester is coming to the Park. I told you last night, but I daresay you've forgotten it; and I couldn't tell then that Mr Hall was acquainted with you, or that he would be so anxious to be hospitable.
Mr Blake was full of his own good tidings, but not so full but that he could remember, before he took his departure, to say a half whispered word on behalf of John Gordon. "What do you think, Mr Whittlestaff? Since you were at Little Alresford we've settled the day." "You needn't be telling it to everybody about the county," said Kattie Forrester.
Kattie Forrester will be in by the very train that was to take you on to London, and I'm to wait and put her into Mr Hall's carriage. One of the daughters, I don't doubt, will be there, and you can wait and see her if you like it. If you'll get your bag ready, the coachman will take it with Kattie's luggage. There's the Park carriage coming down the street now.
"Think of whatever is the greatest joy in the world," said Mr Blake. "Don't make yourself such a goose," said Kattie Forrester. "Oh, but I am in earnest. The greatest joy in all the world." "I suppose you mean you're going to be married," said Mr Whittlestaff. "Exactly. How good you are at guessing! Kattie has named the day. This day fortnight. Oh dear, isn't it near?"
"If you think so, it shall be this day fortnight next year," said Kattie. "Oh dear no! I didn't mean that at all. It can't be too near. And you couldn't put it off now, you know, because the Dean has been bespoke. It is a good thing to have the Dean to fasten the knot. Don't you think so, Miss Lawrie?" "I suppose one clergyman is just the same as another," said Mary. "So I tell him.
Miss Lawrie was to go over and spend a fortnight at Little Alresford just previous to Kattie Forrester's marriage, and Gordon was to come down to the marriage, so as to be near to Mary, if he could be persuaded to do so. Of this Mr Blake spoke with great certainty. "Why shouldn't he come and spoon a bit, seeing that he never did so yet in his life? Now I have had a lot of it."
It was manifest both to Mr Whittlestaff and to Mary that it had been lugged in without a cause, to enable Mr Blake to talk about the absent man. "It would have been pleasant; eh, Kattie?" "We should have been very glad to see Mr Gordon, if it would have suited him to come," said Miss Forrester. "It would have been just the thing for him; and we at Oxford together, and everything.
Mr Whittlestaff was at the moment putting on his great-coat, and Mary stood with her bonnet and cloak on at the open front door, listening to a word or two from Kattie Forrester and Evelina Hall. "Oh, I wish, I wish it might have been!" said Kattie Forrester. "And so do I," said Evelina. "Can't it be?"
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