Everybody said that you were to be one of them if
you could get the other people out. Is it Mr. Bonteen?"
"Likely enough. Not that I know anything of the kind; but as I hate
him from the bottom of my heart, it is natural to suppose that he has
the same feeling in regard to me."
"I agree with you there."
"But I don't know that it comes from any feeling of that kind."
"What does it come from?"
"You have heard all the calumny about Lady Laura Kennedy."
"You do not mean to say that a story such as that has affected your
position."
"I fancy it has. But you must not suppose, Madame Goesler, that I
mean to complain. A man must take these things as they come. No one
has received more kindness from friends than I have, and few perhaps
more favours from fortune. All this about Mr. Kennedy has been
unlucky,--but it cannot be helped."
"Do you mean to say that the morals of your party will be offended?"
said Madame Goesler, almost laughing.
"Lord Fawn, you know, is very particular. In sober earnest one cannot
tell how these things operate; but they do operate gradually.
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