23/29 I suppose you know it 's the identical damsel I met the day before, and owe it to for my run on the downs--I 've a compliment ready made for her.' 'You think that letter written in good faith ?' said Evan. 'You got up the other night, and said you were a tailor--a devotee of the cabbage and the goose. Why the notion didn't strike me is extraordinary--I ought to have known my man. However, the old gentleman who gave the supper--he's evidently one of your beastly rich old ruffianly republicans--spent part of his time in America, I dare say. Put two and two together.' But as Harrington desired plain, prose, Mr.Raikes tamed his imagination to deliver it. |