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Mr. Ralph Ashley several times stated his
willingness to subscribe to any views, opinions or conclusions which
Miss Fanny desired him to, and finally placed his fingers in his ears.
Fanny greeted this manoeuvre with a sudden blow in the laugher's face,
from her bouquet; and Redbud, forgetting her disquietude, laughed
gaily at the merry cousins.
So they entered, and met the bevy of young school girls on the
portico, with whom Mr. Ralph Ashley, in some manner, became
instantaneously popular: perhaps partly on account of the grotesque
presents he scattered among them, with his gay, joyous laughter. After
thus making himself generally agreeable, he looked at the setting sun,
and said he must go. He would, however, soon return, he said, to see
his dearest Fanny, the delight of his existence. And having made
this pleasant speech, he went away on his elegant horse, laughing,
good-humored, and altogether a very pleasing, graceful-looking
cavalier, as the red sunset showered upon his rich apparel and his
slender charger all its wealth of ruddy, golden light.


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