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    400 MR. FRANiKXAM y's MARRIAGE.

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    I^» I——I Have Passed My Life As A Dressm...

    me _adde join d he the addressing admiring " Miss circle Woodville round my who old friend with . Am emb I intrusive ?* t '

    had half , closed her volume . , : some _, arrassmen ¦ : ' "Oh no , sir ! " she replied , fearing * to have wounded himfor slie

    had often remarked with commiseration the lonely and desp , ised position of the poor lame gentleman in the _family ; ' _^ oh nosirwe

    shall gladly welcome any friend of good Dr . Primrose . " , , And she then rose and set him a chair , for she loved to play the

    hostess in her little parlor . The reading recommenced , our reader soon resumed her animation , and so interested were we , that I

    lingered an hour after the proper time of my departure . _" Well , Miss Woodville , " said Mr . Frankland , rising * as I moved

    to leave , " a very good story , but a sad moral after all has Goldsmith ' A sad moral given ! us " . repeate " d we bothbreathlessl ;

    , y . _" Yes , after all their trials ; and troubles , he has only the old common-place to reward the Primrose family _with—^ marriage I Such a

    hackneyed reward ! always the same in all books , no matter what the merit of hero or . ¦ heroine . " ,

    returned - ' ; Yet you Miss listened _^ Woodville ¦ ¦ with , .- roguishl much interest y . to ¦ . . ¦ _"; this hackneyed end ?"

    morrow "So ' much s reading so , that ? " I want to know whether I may attend ¦ tor :

    . " Yes , if you will pay your footing , if you will read to us yourself . You see , Miss Wilson , " remarked Susanas soon as Mr . Frankland

    , was . gone , " Mr . Frankland is such a confirmed bachelor that there can be no harm in these little visits of his . "

    • _: •• ¦ Mr . Frankland read to us the evening following , and the next . When I again came to work at Mrs . Dashwood ' she entered the

    school-room with a , hesitating manner . , " Now , ladies , " he said" I know this is your , holiday -. time , you

    must please deal frankly with , me , and declare in plain terms whether my presence be irksome to you ? It would deeply grieve me to

    deprive you of your _leisiire ; for perhaps I am a check upon the discussion of many feminine topics . If sodo not scruple to tell me :

    you know I _ain used to spend my evenings , alone , so pray speak as you feel . " .

    . quaint lie had way evidently no doubt strung ¦ . _ejecting his mind that to if say his this societ , much were , in not his formal

    able to Miss , , Woodville , that kind tongue , of hers would y frame , agree itself to tell him so . J 3 ut I _anr-sij . re that Susan had honestly no dilemma

    of the kind . A more delicate one beset her woman ' s wit : how should she manage not to appear too eager for his company ? So

    now Miss Woodville , who had never spoken before but from the impulse of * her heart , got up a little scheme , and , turning the tables on

    Mr . Frankland , charged him with being wearied of our _^ _^ company , and so contriving this excuse for not again boring himself with . it .

    It was wonderful how easily Mr . Frankland became a victim . to-so

    400 Mr. Franikxam Y'S Marriage.

    400 MR . _FRANiKXAM _y ' s _MARRIAGE .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 400, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/40/