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Updated: September 26, 2025
"Thravellin' for plisure, av coorse," insinuated the chief. "Yes; I wanted to take a run through the Continent," said Russell, in a grandiose way, as though the "Continent" was something belonging to him; "and I'm also bringing home with me a ward of mine Miss Westlotorn." "Ah! an' so the young lady is a ward av yours? I thought she was your daughter." "No, she's my ward." "Is she rich?"
And now I should like to ask you calmly, Miss Westlotorn, one simple question: Did you ever hear in all your life of such a perfect and unmitigated chuckle-head?" "Never!" said Katie, in a demure tone. "Well," continued Harry, ruefully, "luck was against me. I met with several delays of a tedious kind, and lost in all about two days.
Westlotorn decided to move to Madrid, which she thought would be a pleasanter residence. So about three months ago she made the move, and after that Katie and I saw as much of one another as we wished, and she became regularly engaged to me." "So the step-mother approved, did she?" "Oh, altogether!" "Well, what's the trouble?" "Oh, this infernal Russell, the guardian, you know!
"Well, you've hit it partly, only she's with her friends just now that is to say, she's with her guardian and his wife; and the problem to be solved by me is, how I am to get her from those two dragons." "Oh, that can be done. But now, my boy, to come to the point, who is she? her name?" "Her name," said Ashby, "is Westlotorn Katie Westlotorn."
"Ah, now, Miss Westlotorn, I didn't," said Harry. "I'm not so infernally conceited as all that, you know." "But hadn't she promised in the boat?" "In the boat! Well, yes " "Of course: then why did she have to choose you again?" "Oh, well in the boat it was an informal sort of thing. But never mind. She promised to marry me, and I went back to Barcelona. We then corresponded for about a year."
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