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"You had better subscribe alone," he replied, still without manifest
provocation.
"That would be uncivil now."
"I take that upon myself."
Wherewith there came a silence; while Cecil swelled as she thought
of the prejudice against her friend, and Raymond revolved all he had
ever heard about creatures he knew so little as women, to enable him
to guess how to deal with this one. How reprove so as not to make
it worse? Ought not his silent displeasure to suffice? And in such
musings the carriage reached home.
It had been an untoward day. He had been striving hard against the
stream at Willansborough. The drainage was not only scouted as an
absurd, unreasonable, and expensive fancy, but the architect whom he
had recommended, in the hope that he would insist on ground-work
which might bring on the improvement, had been rejected in favour of
a kinsman of Mr. Briggs, the out-going mayor, a youth of the lower
walk of the profession--not the scholar and gentleman he had
desired, for the tradesman intellect fancied such a person would be
expensive and unmanageable.


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