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Tallman Taylor, the great beauty, and Miss Wyllys, the heiress." "Yes, I know the family very well; but I never saw Mr. Wyllys's granddaughter before." "She is quite plain," observed one gentleman. "Very plain," replied the other, turning away. The evening proved very sultry, and after accompanying the ladies home from the concert, Mr. Ellsworth proposed to Harry a stroll in the open air.
"Husband, husband! it is but a poor education that don't teach a child to do what is right! I feel as if we had never taught him what we ought to. I did not know he had got so many bad ways until lately; and now that I do know it, my heart is broken!" "Tallman was not so bad as you make him out. He was no worse than a dozen other young gentlemen I could name at this very minute."
One of the spectators some country boor, no doubt so far forgot himself as to cry out loud enough for all to hear: "Tallman! Let us have Tallman!" Of course he met with an instant rebuke, but I did not wait to hear it, or to see order restored, for a glance from the coroner had already sent me to the door in search of this new witness.
Of all Tallman Taylor's surviving friends, his mother was the one who most deeply felt his death; she was heart-stricken, and shed bitter tears over the young man. "There is nothing left, Hester, for the child or her mother," said the merchant, sitting down in a rocking-chair in his wife's room. "All gone; all wasted; five times the capital I had to begin with.
His feelings for Jane had certainly altered very much since the discovery of the double-dealing that had been going on; but weak as she had proved herself, she was still much too lovely, much too well-bred, at least, to be bestowed upon one whom he disliked as much as Tallman Taylor.
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