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'Duchess of Omnium!'
'She will be Lady Silverbridge.'
'Oh; of course she'll be that first. Then I've got nothing further
to say. I'm not going to enter myself to run against you. Only I
shouldn't have believed it if anybody else had told me.'
'Such is my good fortune.'
'Oh ah,--yes; of course. That is one way of looking at it. Well,
Silverbridge. I'll tell you what I shall do; I shall hook it.'
'No; not you.'
'Yes, I shall. I daresay you won't believe me, but I've got such a
feeling about me here'--as he said this he laid his hand upon his
heart,--'that if I stayed I should go for hard drinking. I shall
take the great Asiatic tour. I know a fellow that wants to go, but
he hasn't got any money. I daresay I shall be off before the end
of next month. You don't know any fellow that would buy a half-a-
dozen hunters; do you?' Silverbridge shook his head. 'Good-bye,'
said Dolly, in a melancholy tone. 'I am sure I am very much
obliged to you for telling me. If I'd known you'd meant it, I
shouldn't have meddled, of course. Duchess of Omnium!'
'Look here, Dolly, I have told you what I should have not have
told anyone, but I wanted to screen the young lady's name.
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