A Fair Fraud — page 44: what you’re looking at

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A Fair Fraud 33 pray? He is handsome and agreeable; he goes into the very best society, and, above all, he is #7ch/—An only son, with this nice place coming to him when his father dies. I really don’t know where you expect me to find a better match for you.’ ‘Remains to be seen whether Kenneth Drury wants to marry me/’ remarked Miss Lane, airily. ‘I am not at all certain that he does.’ ‘Why not? Anybody can see that he its in love with you! What on earth makes you doubt it?’ ‘If he is in love with me it makes it all the worse. By the way, did you notice that girl who was in the morning-room when we arrived, whom Mrs Drury called her adopted niece ?’ ‘Well, what about her? An insignificant- looking little creature.’ *I call her extremely pretty.’ ‘Pooh! she is a nobody, a penniless depen- dant.’ ‘Well, so am I a nobody and penniless, and all I have to depend on is my wits.’ ‘Don't talk nonsense. You have your looks, my dear. Besides, what has the girl got to do with you and your affairs, pray ?’ ‘Oh, only that I heard Captain Drury call her by some pet name, and it set me wonder- ing. The girl is decidedly pretty, and she C WOO oO C' Q)