"'
'I will run the risk, grandmother. I will be answerable for my own
fate.'
'So be it, Mary. And now send Maulevrier to me.'
Mary went down to the billiard room, where she found her brother and her
lover engaged in a hundred game.
'Take my cue and beat him if you can, Molly,' said Maulevrier, when he
had heard Mary's message. 'I'm fifteen ahead of him, for he has been
falling asleep over his shots. I suppose I am going to get a lecture.'
'I don't think so,' said Mary.
'Well, my dearest, how did you fare in the encounter?' asked Hammond,
directly Maulevrier was gone.
'Oh, it was dreadful! I made the most rebellious speeches to poor
grandmother, and then I remembered her affliction, and I asked her to
forgive me, and just at the last she was ever so much kinder, and I
think that she will let me marry you, now she knows I have made up my
mind to be your wife--in spite of Fate.'
'My bravest and best.'
'And do you know, Jack'--she blushed tremendously as she uttered this
familiar name--'I have made a discovery!'
'Indeed!'
'I find that I am to have five hundred a year when I am married.
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