[A Terrible Temptation by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookA Terrible Temptation CHAPTER II 4/19
Could he call upon the lady without ceremony? "You won't get in.
Her street door is jolly well guarded, I can tell you." "I am very curious to see her in her own house." "So are a good many fellows." "Could you not give me an introduction ?" Marsh shook his head sapiently for a considerable time, and with all this shaking, as it appeared, out fell words of wisdom.
"Don't see it. I'm awfully spooney on her myself; and, you know, when a fellow introduces another fellow, that fellow always cuts the other out." Then, descending from the words of the wise and their dark sayings to a petty but pertinent fact, he added, _"Besides,_ I'm only let in myself about once in five times." "She gives herself wonderful airs, it seems," said Bassett, rather bitterly. Marsh fired up.
"So would any woman that was as beautiful, and as witty and as much run after as she is.
Why she is a leader of fashion.
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