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At a few minutes before twelve
they were all gone, and then came the shock.
'Dolly, my dear, what do you think of Mr Gibson?'
'Think of him, Aunt Stanbury?'
'Yes; think of him think of him. I suppose you know how to think?'
'He seems to me always to preach very drawling sermons.'
'Oh, bother his sermons! I don't care anything about his sermons now.
He is a very good clergyman, and the Dean thinks very much about him.'
'I am glad of that, Aunt Stanbury.' Then came the shock. 'Don't you
think it would be a very good thing if you were to become Mrs Gibson?'
It may be presumed that Miss Stanbury had assured herself that she
could not make progress with Dorothy by 'beating about the bush.' There
was an inaptitude in her niece to comprehend the advantages of the
situations, which made some direct explanation absolutely necessary.
Dorothy stood half smiling, half crying, when she heard the
proposition, her cheeks suffused with that pink colour, and with both
her hands extended with surprise.


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