"She would meet me on her way to and from school while in the city, and the old gentleman had, I presume, some objections to me as a son-in-law." Do you know why her father sent her there?" "At a boarding school some thirty miles from New Haven. But, she will grow older and wiser, you know. I would be ashamed of her in company a dozen times a day if she were any thing to me." "But to call her a fool, is to use rather a broad assertion." "She isn't over bright, Fred, I know," replied Lawson. Why, to speak out the plain, homespun truth, the girl's a fool!" "It does but it has to be heaped up very high to cover a wife's defects, if they be as radical as those in Caroline Everett. "Gold hides a multitude of defects, you know, Fred." But it would take the saving influence of a pretty large sum to give her a marriageable merit in my eyes." "Pray what is there beyond this that a man can call attractive?" "Not by a great deal," was the decided answer of Lawson. "And I know," replied Williams, "that when 'pretty fair looking' is said, pretty much all is said in her favor." "You know, I presume, that he has a pretty fair looking daughter?" "Well, you must know," began Lawson, "that I have a first rate love affair on my hands." "I'm all attention," said Williams, as the two young men stepped forth upon the pavement. So come, go along with me to the slip, and we'll talk the matter over by the way." "Come! sit down and explain yourself," said Williams. "It is-very peculiar and, moreover, I want the good offices of a friend, to enable me the more certainly to accomplish my purposes." "Not ordinary, vulgar business," returned Lawson with a slight toss of the head and an expression of contempt. "Business! What have you to do with business?" "Off for a day or two on a little business affair," replied Lawson. "Where now?" said Frederick Williams to his friend Charles Lawson, on entering his own office and finding the latter, carpet-bag in hand, awaiting his arrival.
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