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One of Our Conquerors
and the country, that we, the Taxpayer, ought not to leave it
altogether to Providence to defend them; notwithstanding
the watchful care of us hitherto shown by our briny Providence,
to save us from anxiety and expense. But there are, he
said, ‘difficulties’; and the very word could stop him, as commonly
when our difficulty lies in the exercise of thinking.
Victor’s African room, containing large wall-maps of auriferous
regions, was inspected; and another, where clerks
were busy over miscellaneous Continents. Dudley Sowerby
hoped he might win the maiden.
He and Victor walked in company Westward. The shop of
Boyle and Luckwort, chemists, was not passed on this occasion.
Dudley grieved that he had to be absent from the next
Concert for practise, owing to his engagement to his mother
to go down to the family seat near Tunbridge Wells. Victor
mentioned his relatives, the Duvidney maiden ladies, residing
near the Wells. They measured the distance between
Cronidge and Moorsedge, the two houses, as for half an hour
on horseback.
Nesta told her father at home that the pair of them had
been observed confidentially arm in arm, and conversing so
profoundly.
‘Who, do you think, was the topic?’ Victor asked.
She would not chase the little blue butterfly of a guess.
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