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Book, page 181 / 290 refreshment-stall tea. That's right. Little Francie is a perfect gem-looks and voice-not acting-no time for that. Heigh-ho!" "Where's Gerald?" "Somewhere about after that Merrifield niece with the doleful name, I fancy. He did very well when it came to the scratch." "Have you seen Dr. Brownlow? He has been to see Clement." "That's first-rate! Where shall I find him?" "Somewhere about, according to your lucid direction, I suppose." "What does he think of old Tina?" Geraldine told him, and was rather surprised, when he whistled as though perplexed, and as Fergus rushed in, glorious with the news that Sir Ferdinand had bought his collection of specimens for the Bexley museum, he rose up, looking perturbed, to find Dr. Brownlow. Next came Gillian with news that the Dirty Boy was sold to Lady Travis Underwood. "And mayn't I stay a moment or two?" said she. "Now the masque is over, that Captain Armytage is besetting me again." "Poor Captain Armytage." "Why do you pity him? He is going to join his ship, the Sparrow Hawk, next week, and that ought to content him." "Ships do not always fill a man's heart." "Then they ought. I don't like it," she added, in a petulant tone. "I have so much to learn and to do, I don't want to be tormented about a tiresome man." "Well, he will be out of your way to-morrow."
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