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"We have," was all he could reply. "Why, how nice that is, to be sure!" exclaimed his aunt. "I might have thought of it, too, Mr. Jauncy, and you being such friends and all. And p'r'aps you know this lady, too Miss Collum as Leandy is keeping company along with?" Bella's expression changed to something blacker still.
So I gave it to Leandy, to be his engagement ring; but it's had to be altered, because it was ever so much too large as it was." "I always thought," said Mrs. Collum, "that it was the gentleman's duty to provide the ring." "So Leandy wanted to; but I said, 'You can pay for the altering; but I'm fanciful about this, and I want to see dearest Miss Collum with my aunt's ring on."
All this by-play passed unnoticed by Miss Tweddle, who was probably too full of the cares of a hostess to pay attention to it; and, accordingly, she judged the pause that followed the fitting opportunity for a little speech. "Mrs. Collum, ma'am," she began; "and my dearest Miss Matilda, the flower of all my lady lodgers; and you, Leandy; and Mr.
"I see it all now: the ring, the the cloak; she has had them all the time!.... Fool that I was silly, trusting fool!" And she broke out into violent hysterics. "Go away at once, hypocrite!" enjoined her mother, addressing the distracted hairdresser, as he stood, dumb and impotent, before her. "Do you want to kill my poor child? Take yourself off!" "For goodness' sake, go, Leandy," added his aunt.
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