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It comes of the d----d romantic notions boys get
from being brought up by women."
"Allow me to say, Major, that you speak a little too like a man of the
world," replied the Doctor. "Nothing can be more desirable for Pen than a
virtuous attachment for a young lady of his own rank and with a
corresponding fortune--this present infatuation, of course, I must
deplore as sincerely as you do. If I were his guardian I should command
him to give it up."
"The very means, I tell you, to make him marry to-morrow. We have got
time from him, that is all, and we must do our best with that.
"I say, Major," said the Doctor, at the end of the conversation in which
the above subject was discussed--"I am not, of course, a play-going man--
but suppose, I say, we go and see her."
The Major laughed--he had been a fortnight at Fairoaks, and strange to
say, had not thought of that. "Well," he said, "why not? After all, it is
not my niece, but Miss Fotheringay the actress, and we have as good a
right as any other of the public to see her if we pay our money.


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