A Fair Fraud — page 188: what you’re looking at

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A Fair Fraud 177 usual good-night kiss. But after she had closed the door, she put her head back again into the room to say,— ‘Will you at least put on your new dress to-morrow morning?’ | ‘No, I won't,’ said Marion, and Mrs Drury slammed the door sharply. . Marion could not help laughing; the anti- climax was funny. Neverthe'ess Mrs Drury’s words, angry as they had made her, had not been thrown away _upon Marion. For a long time she remained plunged in thought after her aunt had left her. She thought about Kenneth and Hester, and what the upshot of their secret meeting in the morning-room would be, but she thought still more about Edgar Naylor, and wondered what he had said about her in reply to her uncle’s injudicious suggestions. With burning cheeks and a beating heart, she realised that her uncle and aunt were trying to egg him on into a marriage with her, so as to get her out of the way of their future daughter-in-law. ‘They shadl get rid of me!’ cried Marion, bitterly to herself, ‘but not in the way they imagine,’ and then she took up the advertise- ment sheets of the Morning Post and scanned them eagerly. There were three advertise- ments from ladies requiring companions. Marion cut them all three out and sketched M GOMMGIOO <S (GO)