His Grace — page 193: what you’re looking at

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HIS GRACE. 187 shall be convalescent before you know where you are. I have brought a large supply of tonics with me in the shape of good resolutions, and I daresay Lady Deverell will kindly provide others in the shape of respectable marriageable gentlemen. So, if you please, we will treat bygones as bygones henceforth and forever.”’ “Very well,” I answered—for in truth that appeared to me to be our wisest plan—“ but the respectable, mar- riageable gentlemen aren’t bygones.” “Only one of them. The others belong to the future, and when they belong to the present we will discuss them as much as you like. Not that we shall have much to discuss, because if they are marriageable and respectable, nothing more will be required of them.” “Something more will be required of them by me,” I remarked. “I don’t suppose you mean what you say, Nora; but if, by any chance, you did, you would be rather inconsequent, wouldn’t you? Why did you break off your engagement to Mr. Burgess, pray?” ‘“‘ Well—because he was Mr. Burgess. Some people are impossible ; others are perfectly possible, though they may not be the precise embodiment of one’s ro- mantic dreams. I know what you are thinking; but you are mistaken. J am not going to accept the first man who asks me out of pique or in order to punish somebody to whom that would be no punishment at all; only it is obvious that I must either marry or be- come a burden and a nuisance to my nearest male relative. Consequently, I have made up my mind to marry ; and consequently I am now on my way to stay with Lady Deverell.” “Then,” I returned, “all I can say is that I hope nobody will ask you.” Gomichoo CSG