The ignobly decent, as poor Biffen calls it, is so very far from
that sphere in which you are naturally at home.'
There was some slight affectation in his language, but the tone
attested sincere feeling. Jasper was watching him with half an
eye, and glancing occasionally at Dora.
'No doubt,' said the latter, 'it's my story in The English Girl
that inclines you to think me a goody-goody sort of young woman.'
'So far from that, Miss Dora, I was only waiting for an
opportunity to tell you how exceedingly delighted I have been
with the last two weeks' instalments. In all seriousness, I
consider that story of yours the best thing of the kind that ever
came under my notice. You seem to me to have discovered a new
genre; such writing as this has surely never been offered to
girls, and all the readers of the paper must be immensely
grateful to you. I run eagerly to buy the paper each week; I
assure you I do. The stationer thinks I purchase it for a sister,
I suppose. But each section of the story seems to be better than
the last. Mark the prophecy which I now make: when this tale is
published in a volume its success will be great.
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