The Autobiography of a Slander by Edna [pseud.] Lyall
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the honour of being consulted, he did not always like the trouble it
involved, and he remembered with a shudder that Miss Houghton had once asked him his opinion about the 'Ethical Concept of the Good.' "It was only that I was so troubled about something Mrs. O'Reilly has just told me," said Lena Houghton. "You won't tell any one that I told you?" "On no account," said the curate, warmly. "Well, you know Mr. Zaluski, and how the Morleys have taken him up?" "Every one has taken him up," said the curate, with the least little touch of resentment in his tone. "I knew that the Morleys were his special friends; I imagine that he admires Miss Morley." "Yes, every one thinks they are either engaged or on the brink of it. And oh, Mr. Blackthorne, can't you or somebody put a stop to it, for it seems such a dreadful fate for poor Gertrude?" The curate looked startled. "Why, I don't profess to like Mr. Zaluski," he said. "But I don't know anything exactly against him." "But I do. Mrs. O'Reilly has just been telling me." "What did she tell you?" he asked with some curiosity. "Why, she has found out that he is really a Nihilist--just think of |
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