portrait of a plump full-chested young man in a stock and a blue coat, with a view of a white-columned country-house behind him. \"Well—well—well ... I wonder what he would have said to all these foreign marriages!\"
Mrs. Archer ignored the allusion to the ancestral cuisine and Mr. Jackson continued with deliberation: \"No, she was NOT at the ball.\"
\"Ah—\" Mrs. Archer murmured, in a tone that implied: \"She had that decency.\"
portrait of a plump full-chested young man in a stock and a blue coat, with a view of a white-columned country-house behind him. \"Well—well—well ... I wonder what he would have said to all these foreign marriages!\"
Mrs. Archer ignored the allusion to the ancestral cuisine and Mr. Jackson continued with deliberation: \"No, she was NOT at the ball.\"
\"Ah—\" Mrs. Archer murmured, in a tone that implied: \"She had that decency.\"
