girl,
and then at his married son, he was reminding himself of all that he
had suffered.

After the breakfast,--which was by no means a grand repast and at
which the cake did not look so like an ill-soldered silver castle as
that other construction had done,--the happy couple were sent away in
a modest chariot to the railway station, and not above half-a-dozen
slippers were thrown after them. There were enough for luck,--or
perhaps there might have been luck even without them, for the wife
thoroughly respected her husband, as did the husband his wife. Mrs.
Finn, when she was alone with Phineas, said a word or two about Frank
Tregear. "When she first told me of her engagement I did not think it
possible that she should marry him. But after he had been with me I
felt sure that he would succeed."

"Well, sir," said Silverbridge to the Duke when they were out
together in the park that afternoon, "what do you think about him?"

"I think he is a manly young man."

"He is certainly that. And then he knows things and understands them.
It was never a surprise to me that Mary should have been so fond of
him."

"I do not know that one ought to be surprised at anything. Perhaps
what surprised me most was that he should have looked so high. There
seemed to be so little to justify it. But now I will accept that as
courage which I before regarded as arrogance."

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