[New Burlesques by Bret Harte]@TWC D-Link bookNew Burlesques BOOK II 13/13
"You would drive that poor girl into the street," she said furiously to the Chairman of the Board, throwing her cap and apron in their faces.
"You're a lot of rotten old hypocrites, and I'm glad to get shut of you." Not content with that, she went to Drake and demanded that he should make his friend Lord Brownstone marry Jinny. "Sorry--awfully sorry--my dear Golly, but he's engaged to a rich American girl who is to pay his debts; but I'll see that he does something handsome for Jinny.
And YOU, my child, what are YOU going to do without a situation ?" he added, with touching sympathy.
"You see, I've some vague idea of marrying you myself," he concluded meditatively. "Thank you for nothing," interrupted Golly gayly, "but I can take care of myself and follow out my mission like John Gale." "There's a pair of you, certainly," said Drake, with a tinge of jealous bitterness. "You bet it's 'a pair' that will take your 'two knaves,' you and your Lord Brownstone," returned Golly, dropping a mock courtesy.
"Ta-ta; I'm going on the stage.".
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