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Amabel Vaughan.
She has tivo eyes , so soft and broivn , Take care ! She gives a side glance , and looks down , Beware ! beware ! Trust her not , She is fooling thee ! And she has hairof a golden hue
, , Take care ! And what she says , it is not true , Beware ! beware ! Trust her not , She is fooling thee !
She has a bosom as AVhite as snow , Take care ! She knows how much it is best to shoAv , Beware ! beware ! Trust her not , She is fooling thee . She gives thee a garland Avoven fair
, Take care ! It is a foolscap for thee to Avear , Beware , beware ! Trust her not , She is fooling thee .
" NOAV that's Amabel all over , said Fitz , as he finished the song Avith a flourish , giving with great effect the last Avorcls , " Trust her not , she is foolmg thee ? " and rising sloAvly from the piano , ancl going back to the fireplace , whether from force of habit because be Avas fond of standing near the fire Avhen there Avas one , or whether it Avas because there was a small pier glass over it , in which ho could see his OAVH handsome featuresI leave the reader to judge . Fitz Avas not an inordmately vain manbut he Avas
, , good looking , and he kneAv it . " Take my word for it , my cousin Amabel is an arrant flirt ; though perhaps she doesn't know it , " be continued sloAvly , as be knocked the ash off the end of the cigar he was smoking , against the corner of the mantle-piece , and replacing it in his mouth , took a long whiff , and added , " She will lead you on and some other half-a-dozen felloAvs or so too , and leave you in the lurch after all , you see if she doesn't .
" Besides , after all , I don ' t see much to admire in her , —her ban' isn't golden , by the bye , is it ? but real auburn—a colour , IIOAV I think of it , I rather like , it is so rare . And then she Avont have any money that I knoAv of , unless some of those jsreeious old uncles of hers leave any to her , Avhich I doubt . " " PsliaAv , Fitz , AA'bat humbug you talk ; just as if I cared whether she had money or not ; ancl then to say there ' s not much to admire in your cousin . Now don't fancy I ' m
gobig to make a fool of myself , or do the romantic , because I ' m not . But I tell you Avhat—I never saAv a girl I should like so ivell to make my Avife , as Miss Vaughan , if I had the chance . She is so confoundedly beautiful , too , and so fascinating in her maimers , and has such a SAveet IOAV voice , and such graceful Avays , that I'll defy any fellow to pass her by Avithout a look of admiration , save and accept your stoical self , and so that's all about it . "
Marcus bad flushed up and was quite excited , as he spoke thus . " Good again . I say , Marcus my boy , your descriptive powers are improving ; have you got anything more to say ? because if that's all you have come to see me about this niormng , all I can say is , that it is very kind of you to walk so far on so small an errand , especially as you have to be at your office at 10 . You Government felloAvs have Very easy tbnes of it , I fancy . We Government felloAvs do a good deal more than the public give us credit for , 1 can tell you , " replied Marcus , " and we have to be uncommonly punctual to sign the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Amabel Vaughan.
She has tivo eyes , so soft and broivn , Take care ! She gives a side glance , and looks down , Beware ! beware ! Trust her not , She is fooling thee ! And she has hairof a golden hue
, , Take care ! And what she says , it is not true , Beware ! beware ! Trust her not , She is fooling thee !
She has a bosom as AVhite as snow , Take care ! She knows how much it is best to shoAv , Beware ! beware ! Trust her not , She is fooling thee . She gives thee a garland Avoven fair
, Take care ! It is a foolscap for thee to Avear , Beware , beware ! Trust her not , She is fooling thee .
" NOAV that's Amabel all over , said Fitz , as he finished the song Avith a flourish , giving with great effect the last Avorcls , " Trust her not , she is foolmg thee ? " and rising sloAvly from the piano , ancl going back to the fireplace , whether from force of habit because be Avas fond of standing near the fire Avhen there Avas one , or whether it Avas because there was a small pier glass over it , in which ho could see his OAVH handsome featuresI leave the reader to judge . Fitz Avas not an inordmately vain manbut he Avas
, , good looking , and he kneAv it . " Take my word for it , my cousin Amabel is an arrant flirt ; though perhaps she doesn't know it , " be continued sloAvly , as be knocked the ash off the end of the cigar he was smoking , against the corner of the mantle-piece , and replacing it in his mouth , took a long whiff , and added , " She will lead you on and some other half-a-dozen felloAvs or so too , and leave you in the lurch after all , you see if she doesn't .
" Besides , after all , I don ' t see much to admire in her , —her ban' isn't golden , by the bye , is it ? but real auburn—a colour , IIOAV I think of it , I rather like , it is so rare . And then she Avont have any money that I knoAv of , unless some of those jsreeious old uncles of hers leave any to her , Avhich I doubt . " " PsliaAv , Fitz , AA'bat humbug you talk ; just as if I cared whether she had money or not ; ancl then to say there ' s not much to admire in your cousin . Now don't fancy I ' m
gobig to make a fool of myself , or do the romantic , because I ' m not . But I tell you Avhat—I never saAv a girl I should like so ivell to make my Avife , as Miss Vaughan , if I had the chance . She is so confoundedly beautiful , too , and so fascinating in her maimers , and has such a SAveet IOAV voice , and such graceful Avays , that I'll defy any fellow to pass her by Avithout a look of admiration , save and accept your stoical self , and so that's all about it . "
Marcus bad flushed up and was quite excited , as he spoke thus . " Good again . I say , Marcus my boy , your descriptive powers are improving ; have you got anything more to say ? because if that's all you have come to see me about this niormng , all I can say is , that it is very kind of you to walk so far on so small an errand , especially as you have to be at your office at 10 . You Government felloAvs have Very easy tbnes of it , I fancy . We Government felloAvs do a good deal more than the public give us credit for , 1 can tell you , " replied Marcus , " and we have to be uncommonly punctual to sign the