"
"Marriage isn't in my line at all"
"Then what the d-- business have you to go about and talk to a girl
like that? Marriage not in your line? Who cares for your line? I
never heard such impudence in all my life. You get yourself engaged
to a young lady of high rank and position and then you say that--
marriage isn't in your line." Upon that he opened his eyes still
wider, and glared upon the offender wrathfully.
"I can't admit that I was ever engaged to Miss Trefoil."
"Didn't you make love to her?"
The poor victim paused a moment before he answered this question,
thereby confessing his guilt before he denied it. "No, my Lord; I
don't think I ever did."
"You don't think! You don't know whether you asked my daughter to
marry you or not! You don't think you made love to her!"
"I am sure I didn't ask her to marry me."
"I am sure you did. And now what have you got to say?" Here there
was another shrug of the shoulders. "I suppose you think because
you are a rich man that you may do whatever you please. But you'll
have to learn the difference. You must be exposed, Sir."
"I hope for the lady's sake that as little as possible may be said
of it."
"D-- the--!" Lord Augustus in his assumed wrath was about to be
very severe on his daughter, but he checked himself again. "I'm not
going to stop here talking all day," he said.
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