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t she has no taste for such an old fellow. Hush, mother.
Seriously, my chief scruple is whether it be fair to ask a girl to
marry a man twice her age, when she has absolutely seen nothing of
his kind but the German master!”

“Trust her,” said Mrs. Brownlow. “Nay, she never could have a freer
choice than now, when she is too young and simple to be weighted with
a sense of being looked down on. It is possible that she may be
startled at first, but I think it will be only at life opening on
her; so don’t be daunted, and imagine it is your old age and
infirmity,” said the mother, smoothing back the locks which certainly
were not the clustering curls of youth.

How the mother watched all the next morning, while the unconscious
Carey first marvelled at her nervousness and silence, and then grew
almost infected by it. It was very strange, she thought, that Mrs.
Brownlow, always so kind, should say nothing but “humph” on being
told that Miss Heath’s workmen had finished, and that she must return
next Monday m