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"Of course it is. I didn't mean to offend you. I wouldn't do it for
worlds,--as you are going away." That afternoon, when Green's back
was turned, Glossop gave it as his opinion that something
particular would turn up between Mounser and Miss Trefoil, an
opinion which brought down much ridicule upon him from both
Hoffmann and Archibald Currie. But before that week was over,--in
the early days of April,--they were forced to retract their opinion
and to do honour to young Glossop's sagacity. Mounser Green was
engaged to Miss Trefoil, and for a day or two the Foreign Office
could talk of nothing else.
"A very handsome girl," said Lord Drummond to one of his
subordinates. "I met her at Mistletoe. As to that affair with Lord
Rufford, he treated her abominably." And when Mounser showed
himself at the office, which he did boldly, immediately after the
engagement was made known, they all received him with open arms and
congratulated him sincerely on his happy fortune. He himself was
quite contented with what he had done and thought that he was
taking out for himself the very wife for Patagonia.
CHAPTER XXII
The Wedding
No sooner did the new two lovers, Mounser Green and Arabella
Trefoil, understand each other, than they set their wits to work to
make the best of their natural advantages.
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