White wings, a yachting romance . that the young lady has been badly treated, and thatsomebody should give the absconder a thrashing. All that isquite right; but why should I be made responsible for it? Icant do impossible things. Well, you sec, said his sage adviser, with a highly matter-of-fact air, your uncle may not regard either the one thing or theothai* as impossible. But they are impossible, said he. Then I am very sorry, said she, with great sweetness; be-cause Denny-mains is really a beautiful place, and the housewould lend itself splendidly to a thorough scheme of redccora-tion ; th
White wings, a yachting romance . that the young lady has been badly treated, and thatsomebody should give the absconder a thrashing. All that isquite right; but why should I be made responsible for it? Icant do impossible things. Well, you sec, said his sage adviser, with a highly matter-of-fact air, your uncle may not regard either the one thing or theothai* as impossible. But they are impossible, said he. Then I am very sorry, said she, with great sweetness; be-cause Denny-mains is really a beautiful place, and the housewould lend itself splendidly to a thorough scheme of redccora-tion ; the liall could be made perfectly lovely. I would have thewooden dado painted a dark bottle-green, and the wall over it arich Pompeiian-red; I dont believe the colors of a hall can betoo bold if the tones are good in themselves. Pompeiian-red isa capital background for pictures, too; and 1 like to sec picturesin tlic hall; the gentlemen can look at tliem while they are wait-ing for their wives. Dont you think Indian matting makes a. THE NEW SUITOR. very nice, serviceable, sober-colored dado for a dining-room—solong as it docs not drive your pictures too higli on the wall ? The fiendishness of this woman! Denny-mains was beingwithdrawn from him at this very moment, and she was bother-ing him with questions about its decoration ! What did he thinkof Indian matting! Well, said he, if I am to lose my chance of Denny-mainsthrough this piece of absurdity, I cant help it. I beg your pardon, said she, most amiably; but I dontthink your uncles proposal so very absurd. It is the commonestthing in the world for people to wish persons in whom they areinterested to marry each other; and very often they succeed bymerely getting the young people to meet, ^nd so forth. You sayyourself that it is reasonable in certain cases. Well, in this case,you probably dont know how great an interest your uncle takesin Miss Avon, and the affection that he has for her. It is quiteremarkable. And he has
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