'
'But she has always been so good!' Then the Duke was again
silent. 'Have you not heard that, sir?'
'I think I have.'
'Is not that a great deal?'
'A very great deal. To be good must of all qualities be the best.
She is very beautiful.'
'I think so, sir. Of course she has no money.'
'It is not needed. It is not needed. I have no objection to make.
If you are sure of your own mind--'
'I am quite sure of that, sir.'
'Then I will raise no objection. Lady Mabel Grex! Her father, I
fear, is not a worthy man. I hear that he is a gambler.'
'He is so poor!'
'That makes it worse, Silverbridge. A man who gambles because he
has money that he can afford to lose is, to my thinking, a fool.
But he who gambles because he has none, is--well, let us hope the
best of him. You may give her my love.'
'She has not accepted me.'
'But should she do so, you may.'
'She almost rejected me. But I am not sure that she was in
earnest, and I mean to try again.' Just at that moment the door
was opened and Major Tifto walked into the room.
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