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Doctor Thorne

CHAPTER VI
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She therefore not unwillingly walked on with Mr Oriel.

Mr Oriel, it must be conceived, was not a common, everyday parson, but had points about him which made him quite fit to associate with an earl's daughter.

And as it was known that he was not a marrying man, having very exalted ideas on that point connected with his profession, the Lady Margaretta, of course, had the less objection to trust herself alone with him.
But directly she was gone, Miss Oriel's tone of banter ceased.

It was very well making a fool of a lad of twenty-one when others were by; but there might be danger in it when they were alone together.
"I don't know any position on earth more enviable than yours, Mr Gresham," said she, quite soberly and earnestly; "how happy you ought to be." "What, in being laughed at by you, Miss Oriel, for pretending to be a man, when you choose to make out that I am only a boy?
I can bear to be laughed at pretty well generally, but I can't say that your laughing at me makes me feel so happy as you say I ought to be." Frank was evidently of an opinion totally different from that of Miss Oriel.

Miss Oriel, when she found herself _tete-a-tete_ with him, thought it was time to give over flirting; Frank, however, imagined that it was just the moment for him to begin.


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