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This meant that Julian was about to be married. Honeymoon journey
was out of the question for him. He and his wife established
themselves in the lodgings which he was already occupying. And the
new life began.
Waymark had made Harriet's acquaintance a couple of weeks before;
Julian had brought her with him one Sunday to his friend's room. She
was then living alone, having quitted Mrs. Ogle the day after that
decisive call upon Julian. There was really no need for her to have
done so, Mrs. Ogle's part in the comedy being an imaginary one of
Harriet's devising. But Julian was led entirely by his cousin, and,
as she knew quite well, there was not the least danger of his going
on his own account to the shop in Gray's Inn Road; he dreaded the
thought of such an interview.
Waymark was not charmed with Miss Smales; the more he thought of
this marriage, the more it amazed him; for, of course, he deemed it
wholly of his friend's bringing about.
The marriage affected their intercourse. Harriet did not like to be
left alone in the evening, so Julian could not go to Waymark's, as
he had been accustomed to, and conversation in Mrs. Casti's presence
was, of course, under restraint.
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