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Chapter XXXVII A Fluke, and what Came of it
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The honour and glory of having a lover of her own was soon to fall to Molly’s share; though to be sure it was a little deduction1 to the honour that the man who came with the full intention of proposing to her, ended by making Cynthia an offer. It was Mr. Coxe, who came back to Hollingford to follow out the purpose he had announced to Mr. Gibson nearly two years before, of inducing Molly to become his wife as soon as he should have succeeded to his uncle’s estate. He was now a rich, though still a red-haired, young man. He came to the ‘George’ Inn, bringing his horses and his groom2; not that he was going to ride much, but that he thought such outward signs of his riches might help on his suit; and he was so justly modest in his estimation of himself that he believed that he needed all extraneous3 aid. He piqued4 himself on his constancy; and indeed, considering that he had been so much restrained by his duty, his affection, and his expectations to his crabbed5 old uncle, that he had not been able to go much into society, and very rarely indeed into the company of young ladies, such fidelity6 to Molly was very meritorious7, at least in his own eyes. Mr. Gibson too was touched by it, and made it a point of honour to give him a fair field, all the time sincerely hoping that Molly would not be such a goose as to lend a willing ear to a youth who could never remember the difference between apophysis and epiphysis. He thought it as well not to tell his wife more of Mr Coxe’s antecedents than that he had been a former pupil; who had relinquished8 (all that he knew of, understood) the medical profession because an old uncle had left him enough of money to be idle. Mrs. Gibson, who felt that she had somehow lost her place in her husband’s favour, took it into her head that she could reinstate herself if she was successful in finding a good match for his daughter Molly. She knew that her husband had forbidden her to try for this end, as distinctly as words could express a meaning; but her own words so seldom did express her meaning, or if they did, she held to her opinions so loosely, that she had no idea but that it was the same with other people. Accordingly she gave Mr. Coxe a very sweet and gracious welcome.
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反馈,回授,自旋挠痒法 | |
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