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236 THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP
" Go and tell this to them as sent you, sir !" cries Caroline,
very imperiously, leaving the lawyer amazed, and her father's face
in a bewilderment, over which we will fling his snuffy old pockethandkerchief.
" If such is unfortunately the case—if you actually mean to
abide by this astonishing confession—which deprives you of a high
place in society—and—and casts down the hope we had formed of
redressing your injured reputation—I have nothing for it ! I take
my leave, madam ! Good morning, Mr. Hum !—Mr. Gann !" And
the old lawyer walks out of the Little Sister's room.
" She won't own to the marriage ! She is fond of some one else
—the little suicide !" thinks the old lawyer, as he clatters down
the street to a neighbouring house, where his anxious principal was
in waiting. " She's fond of some one else !"
Yes. But the some one else whom Caroline loved was Brand
Firmin's son ; and it was to save Philip from ruin that the poor
Little Sister chose to forget her marriage to his father.