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And if Charles Svendt's Stock-Exchange friends could have seen him merrily circling the tables and exhorting already distent youngsters to still greater and greater exertions; poking them in the ribs to prove, against their own better judgment, but in accordance with their inclinations, that there was assuredly still room for more; bidding them "Mangez!
"I'll come round then a bit before eleven and we'll all go along together," was Charles Svendt's parting word. "Right! Au revoir!" and Graeme went home across the fields smiling happily to himself.
"He wished his ward to marry you, but Miss Brandt made her own choice, which she had a perfect right to do, and, ma foi " leaning back in his chair and regarding the two faces in front of him, he did not finish his sentence in words, but contented himself with cryptic nods whose meaning, we may hope, was lost upon Charles Svendt's amour propre. "And what would you do?" asked the Vicar presently.
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