PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
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I. A Liberal Education II. Cordial Relations III. Retribution IV. The Perverseness of It V. A Matter of Duty VI. My Last Chance VII. The Little Wretch VIII. An Expensive Privilege IX. A Very Dull Affair X. Strange but True XI. The Very Latest Thing XII. An Uncounted Hour XIII. A Reminiscence XIV. A Fine Day XV. The House Opposite XVI. A Quick Change XVII. A Slight Mistake XVIII. The Other Lady XIX. What Might Have Been XX. One Way In
“There’s ingratitude for you!” Miss Dolly Foster exclaimed suddenly.
“Where!” I asked, rousing myself from meditation.
She pointed to a young man who had just passed where we sat. He was dressed very smartly, and was walking with a lady attired in the height of the fashion.
“I made that man,” said Dolly, “and now he cuts me dead before the whole of the Row! It’s atrocious. Why, but for me, do you suppose he’d be at this moment engaged to three thousand a year and--and the plainest girl in London?”
“Well, very plain anyhow. I was quite ready to bow to him. I almost did.”
“Oh, well, you didn’t then. It only looked like it.”
“I met him,” said Miss Dolly, “three years ago. At that time he was--oh, quite unpresentable. He was everything he shouldn’t be. He was a teetotaler, you know, and he didn’t smoke, and he was always going to concerts. Oh, and he wore his hair long, and his trousers short, and his hat on the back of his head. And his umbrella--”
Arthur Conan Doyle
