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"But I've got to go!" insisted Rollo, in perfectly understandable dog-talk. The doctor missed the expression of terror and dismay that flitted across
Spurlock's face. “You see,” he said, “it is doubtful if we can ever marry. The little old lady struck like a projectile upon the
resounding chest of the foremost of these, and then Ann Veronica had got past
and was ascending the steps. Three short days. Why doesn’t she marry? Plenty of money under her father’s will. They
were properly brought up, and sat still and straight, and took the luck fate
brought them as gentlewomen should. ‘I have an
excellent excuse to remain comfortably ensconced in my parlour here, able to
indulge in my favourite pastime. Only one thing emerged with
any reasonable clarity in her mind at once, and that was that unless she was
saved from drowning by an unmarried man, in which case the ceremony is
unavoidable, or totally destitute of under-clothing, and so driven to get a
trousseau, in which hardship a trousseau would certainly be “ripping,” marriage
was an experience to be strenuously evaded.
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