When I gave him an invitation to supper, I little thought he'd accept it. He used to call it his fire-escape—ha! ha! I've often used the ladder for my own convenience, but I never expected to turn it to such good account. He was an outside broker and the proprietor of a financial newspaper; he had come up very rapidly in the last few years, and Mr. ‘You put that thing away now, missie. White will present her bill. He did not know—and probably never would unless she told him—that it was very easy (and comfortable for a woman) to fall into slatternly ways in this latitude. This Joan would hold them for a little. Hers was beauty on a large scale no doubt; but it was beauty, nevertheless: and the carpenter thought her eyes as bright, her complexion as blooming, and her figure (if a little more buxom) quite as captivating as when he led her to the altar some twenty years ago. "You must have travelled a good deal to know so much about men. She could not make up her mind which was the finer, more elemental thing, which gave its values to the other. It stunned her. With a rustle of her full lilac petticoats, Miss Froxfield turned back to Alderley.
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