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"If I say it again now, will you remember?"
"I cannot promise, Sir Griffin."
"Will you give me an answer?"
"That must depend."
"Come, I will have an answer. When a man tells a lady that he admires her,
and asks her to be his wife, he has a right to an answer. Don't you think
that in such circumstances a man has a right to expect an answer?"
Lucinda hesitated for a moment, and he was beginning again to remonstrate
impatiently, when she altered her tone, and replied to him seriously: "In
such circumstances a gentleman has a right to expect an answer."
"Then give me one. I admire you above all the world, and I ask you to be
my wife. I'm quite in earnest."
"I know that you are in earnest, Sir Griffin. I would do neither you nor
myself the wrong of supposing that it could be otherwise."
"Very well then. Will you accept the offer that I make you?"
Again she paused. "You have a right to an answer, of course; but it may be
so difficult to give it. It seems to me that you have hardly realised how
serious a question it is."
"Haven't I though? By George, it is serious."
"Will it not be better for you to think it over again?"
He now hesitated for a moment.
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