Her Faithful Knight — page 136: what you’re looking at

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132 Darcy’s Sympathy. and played it very well. We cowboys turned out in force, and were rewarded, for the Clairette was a very handsome woman, with the remains of a good voice and any amount of go. It was Millie Clements, a name pretty well known in the States, and we’d all have thrown our hearts at her feet, but that she traveled with her husband, an awfully good looking English chap, with a lot of curly black hair, who it appears all the girls in the crowd are in love with; Cupid, they call him. He couldn’t act a bit, but seemed a decent sort of fellow and well connected, for the odd part of it is he claimed a cousinship with you. I thought it was bluff, but he seemed to know all about you and your family, and even spoke of you as his best friend. His name is Sergius Trevelyan, or at least that is what he calls himself, though he darkly hints he’s a duke in dis- guise. When you write, let me know whether you’ve ever heard of the fellow.’ “That is all he says on the subject,” said Darcy Der- rick, glancing through the'rest of the letter before putting it back into his pocket, “but, remembering the interest you showed in Trevelyan at Whitlock’s office, I thought you might like to hear it.” “T have never seen the man,” said Dorothy quickly. “Beyond knowing that he is a cowardly villain, I know nothing about him.” “You speak strongly——’” “T feel strongly. Please, Mr. Darcy, do not speak of the man again.” “T can’t bear to think,” he said, “that our first acquaint- anceship should have been through someone you so evi- dently, and doubtless for some good reason, dislike and despise, or that you should ever associate me in your mind with this fellow, who for your sake I detest without even knowing why, and who evidently trades on his distant connection with me, If he has, as Whitlock suggested, EOmicboo “S (E@)