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The next sheet of Selby-Harrison's accounts was equally business-like in form. Anti-Tommy-Rot Gazette Guarantee Fund Trinity College, Dublin, No. 175, and at the rooms of the Elizabethan Society Per Contra. Examined and found correct Kindly remit at once to avoid legal proceedings. J. Selby-Harrison. The last thing in the world I wanted was further legal proceedings.
It was, with the exception of Selby-Harrison's, the shortest of the whole batch. "I write, not in anger but in sorrow. Lalage, whom I can only think of as a dear but misguided child, has been led away by the influence of undesirable companions into a grievous mistake. I shrink from applying' a severer word.
"Then leave the question of the Archdeacon's qualifications," said my mother, "to those who have to elect him." "Not to me," I said hurriedly. "I couldn't work through that list of Selby-Harrison's. Try my uncle. Try Lord Thormanby. He'll like it." "There's one thing " said Lalage. "Leave it to the synod," said my mother. "Or to Lord Thormanby," I said. "Very well," said Lalage. "I will.
"As a matter of fact, Selby-Harrison it's a hyphenated surname is a man." "Oh, is it?" said Titherington, using the neuter pronoun because, I suppose, he was still uncertain about Selby-Harrison's sex. "I wish," I said, "that I knew exactly what they've done." "It doesn't in the least matter to us. So long as she's the kind of young woman who does something we shall be satisfied."
I should like to hear Hilda's mother's opinion of the Archdeacon's view. Its injustice was of course quite evident to me. I had Selby-Harrison's accounts before me, and nothing could be clearer than they were. Besides I knew from my mother's letter that what the Archdeacon now said about Selby-Harrison and Hilda he had originally said about me.
I turned my back on him and looked out of the window. "Selby-Harrison," said Lalage, "is on Trinity 3rd A., inside left, and there's a cup match on to-day, so of course he couldn't come." "This," I said, "is a great disappointment to me. I've been looking forward for years to making Selby-Harrison's acquaintance, and every time I seem to be anywhere near it, something comes and snatches him away.
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