Indeed, No!
"What! You refuse me?"
His face betraying his intense astonish m*nt and chagrin, ihe young man who faced the beautiful girl who had just blasted all his hopes staggered back in an excess of emotion; thea he draw himself up haughtily.
"It is, of course, your privilege," he said ; "but do you -realise what I have done for you? Six months ag<s, when we first became acquainted, I began to spend money. Look at the- carriage-? we have had, the flowers I have sent, the elaborate suppers 1 have given you ! Perhaps it is wrong to speak of theso things, but did you not permit me tc do all this Indeed, did you not encourage me in my lavishness? How comes it now, in view of these facts, that you reject me? Was I rot right in hoping for \ictory?"
She shook her head.
"Cei-tainly not," she replied. "I did the right thing 1 . Why, my dear boy. if I had hed the slightest idea of marryingi you, do you suppose I would have permitted you to spend all that money?"
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Otago Witness, Issue 2667, 26 April 1905, Page 74
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183Indeed, No! Otago Witness, Issue 2667, 26 April 1905, Page 74
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