Gertrude shrank back into a corner of the vehicle as it departed.
Then Trefusis, expanding his chest like a man just released from some cramping drudgery, rejoined Mr.Jansenius.
"There goes a true woman," he said.

"I have been persuading her to take the very best step open to her.

I began by talking sense, like a man of honor, and kept at it for half an hour, but she would not listen to me.
Then I talked romantic nonsense of the cheapest sort for five minutes, and she consented with tears in her eyes.

Let us take this hansom.

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