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eounsels.
But you had Ethel Rawdon.' he
said. .'I thought she was everybody
she thinks she does, = said Mrs. Den
things she advises =
t'Then take my advice, mother"
nOh, Bryce, it is the best of all
Bryce does not know about dress
and such things, mother; Ethel finds
out what she does not know. Bryce
cannot go to modistes and milliners
Gwen, Ethel does not pay, as
much attention as she might-she is al
ways somewhere or other with that Eng
lishman, that she says is relative-for
my part, doubt it.
ooh, mother!' - ...ssE ss -
hide love affair. Why does she never
bring him here to. calf"
because asked her not. I do not
want to make new friends, especially
English ones, now. am so busy all
to Basil.''
Yes, and there is no one to talk to
me. Ethel and the Englishman would
pass an hour or two very nicely, and
your father is very fond of foreigners.
think you ought to ask Ethel to ins
troduce him to us; then we could have
a little dinner for him and invite him
to our opera box-don + you agree with
me, BrycesD
of Dora does. Of course, at this
time, Dora's wishes and engagements
the young man at the club with Shaw
McLaren and about town with Judge
Rawdon and others. He seems nice
little fellow. Jack Lacy wanted to in
troduce me to him yesterday, but / told
him could live without the honor. Of
course, if Dora feels like having him
here that is very different matter. He
would give an air to the wedding.
Is he handsome, Bryces"
Yes-and no. Women would rave
Z about him; men would think him fnical
and dandifed. He looks as if he were
the happiest fellow in the world-in
fact, he looked to me 50 provokingly
happy that disliked him; but now that
Dodo is my little sister again, ;! can be
happy enough to envy no one.' ~
Then Dora slipped her hand into her
brothers hand, and Bryce knew that he
might take his way to his little office
in William street, the advent of Mr..
Mostyn into. his life being now as Ger
tain as anything in this questionable,
fuctuatings world could be. As. he was
:
Ethel and he turned and walked back
with her to the Denning house. He was
so good and so good humored
that Ethel could not avoid an inquisi-
tive look at the usually glum young
man, and he caught it with a laugh and
said, suppose you wonder what is
the matter with, me, Miss Rawdon?"
81 u !" You look more than usually happy.
IF I suppose you have found a wife or
! fortune, shall I be wrong7"
+ - You come near the truth; I have
found a sister. Do you know am very.
fond of Dora and I'VE have made up
4; our quarrels'' :
Then Ethel looked at him again She
did not believe him. She was sure that
Dora was not the only. evoker Of the
unbounded satisfaction in Bryce Den
ning's face and manner. But she let
the reason pass; she had no likely argu-
ments to use against it. And that day
Mrs. Denning, with slight air Of in
jury, opened the subject of Mr.. Mos
tyn 8 introduction to them. She thought
Ethel had hardly treated the Dennings
fairly. Everyone was wondering they
had not met him. Of course, she knew
they were not aristocrats and she sup
posed Ethel was ashamed of them, but,
for her part, she thought thew were as
good as most people, and if it came to
money, they could put down dollar for
dollar with any multi-millionaire in
America, or England either, for that
matter.
When the reproach took this tone
there seemed TO be only one thing for
Ethel to say or to do; but that one
thing was exactly what she did not say
or do. She took up Mrs Denning's re-
proach and complained that tther rela-
tive and friend had been purposelv and
definitely ignored. Dora had told her
plainly she did not wish to make Mr..
Mostvn's acquaintance; and. in accord
T with this FEELING, no one in the Denning
family had called <on Mr.. Mostyn. or
shown him the least courtesy. She
thought the whole Rawdon family had
the best of reasons for feeling hurt at
the neglect
This view of the case had not entered
| Mrs. DenninG's mind. She was quickly
sorry and apologize for Dora IS selfish
ness and her own houghtlessness and
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