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Updated: May 15, 2025
William Summerkin was the young man's name; and as it was known that Mr Summerkin was to inherit a fortune amounting to five thousand pounds from his maiden aunt, it was considered that Polly Toogood was not doing amiss.
He'll take nobody's advice. He thinks that we're all against him." "I suppose the world has been heavy on him, Mr Walker?" "The world has been very heavy on him," said John Eames, who had now been left free to join the conversation, Mr Summerkin having gone away to his lady-love. "You must not judge him as you do other men." "That is just it," said Mr Walker.
Summerkin blushed up to his eyes, of course, but Polly sat as demurely as though she had been accustomed to having lovers all her life. "Mamma will be down almost immediately, John," said Polly as soon as the first greetings were over, "and papa has come in, I know." "Summerkin," said Johnny, "I'm afraid you left the office before four o'clock." "No, I did not," said Summerkin. "I deny it."
"Polly," said her cousin, "you should keep him in better order. He will certainly come to grief if he goes on like this. I suppose you could do without him for half an hour." "I don't want him, I can assure you," said Polly. "I have only been here just five minutes," said Summerkin, "and I came because Mrs Toogood asked me to do a commission." "That's civil to you, Polly," said John.
Summerkin was, however, quite contented to have his own money settled on his darling Polly, and the whole thing was looked at with pleasant and propitious eyes by the Toogood connexion. When John Eames entered the drawing-room Summerkin and Polly were already there.
Think what twelve children are, John. It might be all very well if Toogood were a bachelor, and if some lord had left him a fortune." John Eames did not stay very long in Tavistock Square. His cousins Polly and Lucy were gone to the play with Mr Summerkin, and his aunt was not in one of her best humours. He took his uncle's part as well as he could, and then left Mrs Toogood.
But as John Eames was rather a great man at the Income-tax Office, Summerkin would not fall into his sweetheart's joke on this subject, finding it easier and perhaps safer to twiddle the bodkins in Polly's work-basket. Then Toogood and Mrs Toogood entered the room together, and the lovers were able to be alone again during the general greetings with which Johnny was welcomed.
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