. Denis Duval, Lovel the widower, The Wolves and the lamb, The second funeral of Napoleon ... with illustrations by the author and by Frederick Walker . the paper? Suppose thereis some news—bad news—about the woman you love,will you, or will you not, hear it? Was Othello a roguebecause he let lago speak to him? There was the lay there glimmering under the light, with all thehouse quiet. CHAPTER VI Cecilias successor ^\f\ ONSIEUR ET HON-ORE LECTEUR! I see, as perfectlyas if you were sit-ting opposite to me,the scorn depicted onyour noble counte-nance when you readmy confession thatI, C
. Denis Duval, Lovel the widower, The Wolves and the lamb, The second funeral of Napoleon ... with illustrations by the author and by Frederick Walker . the paper? Suppose thereis some news—bad news—about the woman you love,will you, or will you not, hear it? Was Othello a roguebecause he let lago speak to him? There was the lay there glimmering under the light, with all thehouse quiet. CHAPTER VI Cecilias successor ^\f\ ONSIEUR ET HON-ORE LECTEUR! I see, as perfectlyas if you were sit-ting opposite to me,the scorn depicted onyour noble counte-nance when you readmy confession thatI, Charles Batche-lor, Esquire, did bur-glariously enter thepremises of EdwardDrencher, Esquire, (phew!the odious pestle-grinder, I never couldbear him!) and break open, and read a certain let-ter, his property. I may have been wrong, but Iam candid. I tell my misdeeds; some fellows holdtheir tongues. Besides, my good man, consider thetemptation, and the horrid insight into the paperwhich Bedfords report had already given me. Wouldyou like to be told that the girl of your heartwas playing fast and loose with it, had none of her own, 341. 342 LOVEL THE WIDOWER or had given hers to another? I dont want to make aMrs. Robin Gray of any woman, and merely because her mither presses her sair to marry against her Miss Prior, thought I, prefers this lint-scraperto me, ought I to baulk her? He is younger, andstronger, certainly, than myself. Some people mayconsider him handsome. (By the way, what a remark-able thing it is about many women, that, in affairs ofthe heart, they dont seem to care or understand whethera man is a gentleman or not.) It may be it is my supe-rior fortune and social station which may induce Eliza-beth to waver in her choice between me and my bleeding,bolusing, tooth-drawing rival. If so, and I am onlytaken from mercenary considerations, what a prettychance of subsequent happiness do either of us stand!Take the vaccinator, girl, if thou preferrest
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