[Penny Plain by Anna Buchan (writing as O. Douglas)]@TWC D-Link bookPenny Plain CHAPTER XVI 7/11
Do you think I would let you burden yourself with all my family? I would never be anything but a drag on you.
You must go away, Richard Plantagenet, and take your proper place in the world, and forget all about Priorsford and Penny-plain, and marry someone who will help you with your career and be a fit mistress for your great houses, and I'll just stay here. The Rigs is my proper setting." "Jean," said Lord Bidborough, "will you tell me--is there any other man ?" "No.
How could there be? There aren't any men in Priorsford to speak of." "There's Lewis Elliot." Jean stared.
"You don't suppose _Lewis_ wants to marry me, do you? Men are the _stupidest_ things! Don't you know that Lewis...." "What ?" "Nothing.
Only you needn't think he ever looks the road I'm on.
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