Cavely. "You're an angel to let me speak of it so, and
it's only that man that irritates you. I call him sinfully ostentatious."
"I could blow him from a gun if I spoke out, and he knows it! He's
wanting in common gratitude, let alone respect," Tinman snorted.
"But he has a daughter, my dear."
Tinman slowly and crackingly subsided.
His main grievance against Van Diemen was the non-recognition of his
importance by that uncultured Australian, who did not seem to be
conscious of the dignities and distinctions we come to in our country.
The moneyed daughter, the prospective marriage, for an economical man
rejected by every lady surrounding him, advised him to lock up his temper
in submission to Martha.
"Bring Annette to dine with us," he said, on Martha's proposing a visit
to the dear young creature.
Martha drank a glass of her brother's wine at lunch, and departed on the
mission.
Annette declined to be brought. Her excuse was her guest, Miss
Fellingham.
"Bring her too, by all means--if you'll condescend, I am sure," Mrs.
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