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Diana of the Crossways

CHAPTER III
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I'll inquire presently.' He talked of his prospects, and of the women.

Fair ones, in his opinion, besides Miss Merion were parading; he sketched two or three of his partners with a broad brush of epithets.
'It won't do for Miss Merion's name to be mixed up in a duel,' said Redworth.
'Not if she's to make her fortune in England,' said Sir Lukin.

'It's probably all smoke.' The remark had hardly escaped him when a wreath of metaphorical smoke, and fire, and no mean report, startled the company of supping gentlemen.
At the pitch of his voice, Mr.Sullivan Smith denounced Mr.Malkin in presence for a cur masquerading as a cat.
'And that is not the scoundrel's prime offence.

For what d' ye think?
He trumps up an engagement to dance with a beautiful lady, and because she can't remember, binds her to an oath for a dance to come, and then, holding her prisoner to 'm, he sulks, the dirty dogcat goes and sulks, and he won't dance and won't do anything but screech up in corners that he's jilted.

He said the word.


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