Our Gentleman Boarder 



and unpleasing impossibility, though she 

 was full of sympathy with other folks' love- 

 troubles. Before her hair went grey, 

 several very worthy fellows went away 

 with the heartache from her quiet and 

 absolute refusal. 



As for Mr. Trevanion, we heard in about 

 a twelvemonth's time he was getting on 

 well in India, having developed an unex- 

 pected business capacity : and a little later 

 still that he was living like a veritable 

 nabob in Calcutta, where he had married a 

 young lady who had chanced to make the 

 outward voyage with himself, a very charm- 

 ing girl they said, and the heiress of a 

 Calcutta millionaire whose name is blazoned 

 throughout the earth on the labels of un- 

 numbered jars of chutnee and other pickles. 



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