I suppose I shall still enjoy the pleasure of
your company?"
"Mr. Augustus wishes that I should remain with you, and, as you yourself
say, perhaps it will be best."
CHAPTER XII.
HARRY ANNESLEY'S SUCCESS.
Harry Annesley, a day or two after he had left Tretton, went down to
Cheltenham; for he had received an invitation to a dance there, and with
the invitation an intimation that Florence Mountjoy was to be at the
dance. If I were to declare that the dance had been given and Florence
asked to it merely as an act of friendship to Harry, it would perhaps be
thought that modern friendship is seldom carried to so great a length.
But it was undoubtedly the fact that Mrs. Armitage, who gave the dance,
was a great friend and admirer of Harry's, and that Mr. Armitage was an
especial chum. Let not, however, any reader suppose that Florence was in
the secret. Mrs. Armitage had thought it best to keep her in the dark as
to the person asked to meet her. "As to my going to Montpelier Place,"
Harry had once said to Mrs. Armitage, "I might as well knock at a
prison-door." Mrs. Mountjoy lived in Montpelier Place.
"I think we could perhaps manage that for you," Mrs. Armitage had
replied, and she had managed it.
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