Elinor Wyllys, Volume 2 by Susan Fenimore Cooper
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agreeable."
"Whom can you mean?" said Elinor, running over in her head the names of several persons whom she had seen lately. "You surely do not suspect--No; I am sure you have too good an opinion of him." "I am very far from having a particularly good opinion of the person I refer to," said Miss Agnes; "I think him at least, nothing better than a fortune-hunter; and although it is very possible to do many worse things than marrying for money, yet I hope you will never become the wife of a man whose principles are not above suspicion in every way." "I am disposed just at present, I can assure you, dear Aunt, to have a particularly poor opinion of a mere fortune-hunter." "Yes; you do not seem to feel very amiably towards the class, just now," said Miss Agnes, smiling. "But who is the individual who stands so low in your opinion?" "It is your opinion, and not mine, which is the important one," replied Miss Agnes. "Ah, I see you are joking, Aunt; you half frightened me at first. As far as having no fears for myself, I am really in an alarming state." "So it would seem. But have you really no suspicions of one of our visiters of last evening?" |
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