A Fair Fraud — page 64: what you’re looking at

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A Fair Fraud 53 herself? Mrs Lane, the widow of Mr William Lane, late of the Indian Civil Service!’ ‘Oh!-is that what Mr Lane was?’ ‘Yes, certainly. She told me so herself.’ ‘Might she not possibly like her daughter to marry—a rich man—such a man as Cousin Kenneth, for instance?’ persisted Marion, a little obstinately her aunt thought. Mrs Drury laughed. ‘Oh, I daresay she would not object exactly ; _ but, as a matter of fact, Mrs Lane is far too high-minded to come into a stranger's house and enjoy his hospitality in order to entrap his heir. Besides which, she tells me that she does not want her daughter to marry at all; she could not bear to part with her, and the girl does not want to leave her mother. It seems that Hester has already refused a great many excellent offers—a lord and a baronet, besides several foreign princes they have met abroad.’ : ‘They seem to have travelled a good deal,’ observed Marion. ‘Yes, for Hester’s education; besides which, they are intimate with a great many foreigners of high position, she tells me. They appear to have stayed at castles on the Rhine, and French chateaux, and at Italian palaces, and even at some of those princely places in Austria and Russia, the magnificence of which we quiet, ElOOO© oO C' Q)