[Demos by George Gissing]@TWC D-Link bookDemos CHAPTER I 38/38
We must confess that Hubert has not been exactly popular; and I rather wonder at it; I'm sure he might have been if he had liked.
Just a little too--too self-conscious, don't you think? Of course it was quite a mistake, but people had an idea that he presumed on wealth which was not his own. Well, well, we quiet folk look on, don't we? It's rather like a play.' Presently Mrs.Mewling leaned forward yet more confidentially. 'My dear, you won't be offended? You don't mind a question? There wasn't anything definite ?--Adela, I mean.' 'Nothing, nothing whatever!' Mrs.Waltham asserted with vigour. 'Ha!' Mrs.Mewling sighed deeply.
'How relieved I am! I did so fear!' 'Nothing whatever,' the other lady repeated. 'Thank goodness! Then there is no need to breathe a word of those shocking matters.
But they do get abroad so!' A reflection Mrs.Mewling was justified in making..
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