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TALES FROM "BLACKWOOD"
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WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON
TALES FROM "BLACKWOOD."
MY FRIEND THE DUTCHMAN.
BY FREDERICK HARDMAN.
"And you will positively marry her, if she will have you?"
"Not a doubt of either. Before this day fortnight she shall be Madame Van Haubitz."
"You will make her your wife without acquainting her with your true position?"
During our after-dinner t?te-?-t?te on the day now referred to, my friend the gunner had shown himself exceedingly unreserved, and, without any attempt on my part to draw him out, he had elucidated, with a frankness that must have satisfied the most inquisitive, whatever small points of his recent history and present position he had previously left in obscurity. The conversation began, so soon as the cloth was removed and the guests had departed, by a jesting allusion on my part to his flirtation with the actress, and to her gracious reception of his attentions.
"It is no mere flirtation," said Van, gravely. "My intentions are serious. You may depend Mademoiselle Sendel understands them as such."
"Serious! you don't mean that you want to marry her?"
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