How could you, Holman, how could you.' Yes," the girl went on, flushing in her excitement till she was as red as the cherry ribbons in her cap, "those were the very words she used: 'To think that crime should come into our family! the proudest one in the land!' And she called him by his first name, and asked him how he could do it." "And what did Mr.Blake say ?" returned I, a little taken back myself at this result of my efforts with Fanny.
"O, I did'nt wait to hear.

I did'nt wait for anything.

If folks was going to talk about such things as that, I thought I had better be anywhere than listening at the keyhole.

I went right up stairs I can tell you." "And whom have you told of what you heard in the half dozen hours that have gone by ?" "Nobody; how could you think so mean of me when I promised, and--" It is not necessary to go any further into this portion of the interview.
The Countess De Mirac possessed to its fullest extent the present fine lady's taste for bric-a-brac.

So much I had learned in my inquiries concerning her.