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Updated: May 25, 2025
Something I never dreamed of! I've just asked Mr. Mitrophanis for the hand of his elder daughter, and instead of " "You asked him for his daughter's hand?" "Yes. Is there anything so very astonishing in that?" "Why, didn't you tell me yesterday that " "Well, what if I did?
Although they might have arisen partly from the dispute in the warehouse, it was only too clear that his deep interest in the success of his mission had been as detrimental in awakening the merchant's suspicions as in checking his own eloquence. How many things he could have said to Mr. Mitrophanis if he had only dared!
Having no time to weigh the matter carefully, he was only too glad to find this happy way out of his perplexity. He bowed, and stopped before the old gentleman. "Mr. Mitrophanis, I am delighted to meet you, for I have a few words to say." "Mr. Plateas, I believe?" said the other, politely returning the bow. "The same." "And what can I do for you, Mr. Plateas?"
Mitrophanis, and he to find the professor. Poor Mr. Plateas was waiting for his friend impatiently. On reaching home he had found his dinner growing cold, and Florou worrying over her master's unusual tardiness; it was full twenty minutes after noon! Although the professor was hungry and ate with relish, his mind was ill at ease. He yearned to talk to some one, but there was no one to talk to.
She has been your confidante! That's why you never said anything to me." The judge smiled, but his poor friend felt a little jealous of this cousin. "Why didn't you propose for her hand just as soon as you knew she liked you?" the professor continued. "I did, a week ago; I requested my cousin to call on Mr. Mitrophanis, but " "But what? Where could he find a better son-in-law?
The professor began to feel a little embarrassed; but it was too late to turn back, so he took courage and went on: "To come to the point at once, Mr. Mitrophanis, I desire to become your son-in-law!" This abrupt proposal was a surprise to the old gentleman, and hardly an agreeable one.
Courage! So Mr. Liakos started for the office of his sweetheart's father, although not without inward trepidation. It so happened that Mr. Mitrophanis was just receiving a consignment of coffee from the Custom House; carts were coming up one after another, porters were carrying the sacks into the warehouse, and the judge had difficulty in making his way to the door.
He was about to say something, he didn't know exactly what, when Mr. Mitrophanis forestalled him, and ended his embarrassment. "It is well. I will await Mr. Liakos." Then the old gentleman bowed and walked on. Never in his life had the professor been in such a state of mental distress as that to which he had been a prey ever since the evening before.
His friend's cause ought to have been entrusted to some one less deeply interested in the event. If the professor had not been in such haste to name him as an intermediary, they could have consulted his cousin, and even placed the matter in her hands; his own appearance on the scene would only give Mr. Mitrophanis fresh offence. But why not ask her advice in confidence?
He passed over the stiffness of Mr. Mitrophanis as well as his cousin's unseemly mirth, and urged so skillfully the need of her good offices as to disarm all objection; he had left the affair in his cousin's charge, and secured her promise to send him word of the result at the professor's house. This was the substance of the conversation; but Mr.
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