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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 232, 10 December 1887, Page 11

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Chatters I. AND ll.— Sir Anthony Zembra, jVt.P>, rich, handsome, bland of manner, hia •wife a queen of fashion and liis dinners famous for their cxcellonco, was jet the most dotestccl man in London, as he was one of tlio meanest. He is busily engaged inspecting the items of fashionable intelligence, in which the name of IZembra prominently figures, and which have •evidently been sell-inspired, when he is interrupted by a bustling noise, and a young man, wounded aiul helpless, is borne into the room, followed by Sabina, the daughter of the masrnate. lie protests against his house being made into a slaughter-house. She, however, hasher own w.iy, and w ith a knowledge Rained by six months' experience as a hospital nurse, she lends him until the arrival of a sursreon. The accident wfls occasioned through the young man, who w.^ on a, bicycle, endeavouring to seci 1 clear of ria'oina's dog. At his reouest news of the accident is wired to the Duke of Exminster in the nam- 1 of Fred Foster. Citumt.us 111. axd IV.— Janio Wygram, a bosom friend o£ Sabina's, perceives that Walter Lindsay, a w oalthy young artist, is in love with Sabie, a* her mends call her, but that she herself is peifeetly heart-whole, not yet having experienced love's "pleasingpain." At Walter's request Janic promises to induce Sabinatoaccompan> har to a musical evening at Lindsays studio to meet the groat Horclla, a new baritone, ilis Wynrnm, Janie's mother, also promises to attend and superintend the arrangements f> r the supper. In the meantime iSabie, in constant attendance upon the wounded man. becomes interested in h.5 sporting talk and tales of the racecourse. Chaptkks Y. and Vl. —At the supper party, ■which passes otl'batibf actor ily, Sabina is pressed to accept a present from Lindsay, but all that she consents to do is to drink u little wine from a costly goblet, which ho asks her to receive at Ins hands. The act makes the cup thirty times mcro valuable to him, he says. INext day Fred Foster, the invalid, leaves for Brighton, Sabina and Janie Wygmm bidding him adieu at the station.