The Argosy, Vol. 36

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Excerpt from The Argosy, Vol. 36: July to December, 1883 Meanwhile, Mrs. Hatherley had nothing for it but to wait with such patience as she could muster for the day of Mrs. Burton's return from her fortnight's wedding tour. She confidently believed that this would also be the hour of her triumph. Mrs. Burton would tell what she knew of Gertrude's past, and the credit which had been denied to Mrs. Hatherley would be accorded to her. Never were well-founded expectations more bitterly disappointed. 'ideas in Mrs. Burton's mind bobbed up and down with the rapidity and impartiality of peas in boiling-water. This was especially the case when any novelty excited her, and just now between Mr. Bur ton and wedding presents, new dresses and congratulatory visits, her life was a series of novelties. Under these circumstances, it was 'just a chance which impulse might come uppermost in her. Mrs. Burton in the morning was as capable of snubbing Miss Dallas as in the afternoon she was capable of adoring her it all depended upon the aspect of the question which good-humour and self-interest or ill humour and self-absorption combined to present to her. The first of these connections was predominant in her on the day when she heard the news of Sir John's engagement. A quarter of an hour later saw her in the drawing-room of The Limes. And just as Mrs. Hatherley, enchanted to see her, had opened her lips for her now habitual plaint, and Flossie's eyes were already suffused with the dew of coming tears, Mrs. Burton took the breath out of both of them by sweetly smiling, and asking with the liveliest interest, for dear Sir John and the beautiful bride-elect. On a sign from the speechless Mrs. Hatherley, her daughter limply rang the bell, and Gertrude was produced from the library. Mrs. Burton immediately folded her in her arms, and asked if she had not always prophesied for her a destiny in accordance with her merits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.