[Roger Ingleton, Minor by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookRoger Ingleton, Minor CHAPTER FOURTEEN 11/21
Never mind.
Not far away, is it? We shall see lots of one another." At this moment, just as the band was striking up for a quadrille, Jill came up. "Have you seen dear Mr Arm-- O Rosalind! how _can_ you dance with that man ?" Mr Ratman laughed. "Very well, missy.
I'll pay you out.
You shall dance with me, see if you don't, before the evening is out." Before which awful threat Jill fled headlong to seek the tutor. "Fact is," pursued Mr Ratman, reverting to his previous topic, "ever since I saw you, Miss Rosalind, I said to myself--Robert Ratman, you have found the right article at last.
You don't suppose I'd come all the way here from India, do you, if there weren't attractions ?" She kept a rigid silence, and went through the steps of the quadrille without so much as a look at the talker, Ratman was sober enough to be annoyed at this chilly disdain. "Don't you know it's rude not to speak when you're spoken to, Miss Rosalind ?" said he.
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