15/16 We talked it all over when he was here. He has an idea that a man about to be married always cuts a ridiculous figure." The elder man looked puzzled. A decent girl without fortune, that's all. I suppose we shall see them before long." The subject was shortly dismissed, and Eustace fell to reporting the remarkable conversation in which he had taken part at the Mayor's table. His brother was moved to no little mirth, but did not indulge in such savage contemptuousness as distinguished the narrator. |