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The Proposal — The Scotch1 Novel — Latitude2 — Miracles — Pestilent Heretics — Old Fraser — Wonderful Texts — No Armenian
The man in black having helped himself to some more of his favourite beverage3 and tasted it, I thus addressed him: ‘The evening is getting rather advanced, and I can see that this lady,’ pointing to Belle4, ‘is anxious for her tea, which she prefers to take cosily5 and comfortably with me in the dingle. The place, it is true, is as free to you as to ourselves, nevertheless, as we are located here by necessity, whilst you merely come as a visitor, I must take the liberty of telling you that we shall be glad to be alone as soon as you have said what you have to say, and have finished the glass of refreshment6 at present in your hand. I think you said some time ago that one of your motives7 for coming hither was to induce me to enlist8 under the banner of Rome. I wish to know whether that was really the case.’
‘Decidedly so,’ said the man in black; ‘I come here principally in the hope of enlisting9 you in our regiment10, in which I have no doubt you could do us excellent service.’
‘Would you enlist my companion as well?’ I demanded.
‘We should be only too proud to have her among us, whether she comes with you or alone,’ said the man in black, with a polite bow to Belle.
‘Before we give you an answer,’ I replied, ‘I would fain know more about you; perhaps you will declare your name?’
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advancement
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unreasonable
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sip
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discomfiture
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