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"We think it was awfully kind of Major Lopside to let us know," she repeated, perking. "Well, I think," said Evadne, her slow utterance giving double weight to each word "I think he must be an exceedingly low person himself, and one probably whom Mrs. Clarence has had to snub. He could only have been actuated by animus when he wrote that letter.
"My husband has just received a letter from a friend of his in India, Major Lopside, telling him to warn us all not to call on Mrs. Clarence, who has just joined your regiment," she burst out. "I thought I ought to let you know at once. She met her husband in India, Major Lopside says, and it was a runaway match. But that is not all.
I have no doubt, however, that it was designed for the very purpose to which you are putting it the purpose of spoiling the Clarences' chance of happiness in a new place. And it is precisely to the 'private' character of the document that I take exception. If this Major Lopside has any accusation to bring against Captain Clarence, he should have done it publicly, and not in this underhand manner.
"But it was very good of Major Lopside to let us know. I should certainly have called if he hadn't." "You make me feel sick " Evadne began. "I knew I should!" Mrs, Guthrie Brimston interposed triumphantly. "Sick at heart," Evadne pursued, "to think of an Englishman being capable of writing a letter for the express purpose of ruining a woman's reputation." Mrs. Brimston changed countenance.
He should have written to Colonel Colquhoun." "Nonsense," said Mrs. Guthrie Brimston, her native rudeness getting the better of her habitual caution at this provocation. "Major Lopside would not be fool enough to report a man to his own chief. Why, he might get the worst of it himself if there were an inquiry." "Exactly," Evadne answered. "He thinks it safer to stab in the dark.
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