# Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no. 117, vol. III, March 27, 1886

Author: Various

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68104

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## Summary

A fortnight after Nora’s arrival in Trinidad, Mr Tom Dupuy, neatly dressed in all his best, called over one evening at Orange Grove for the express purpose of speaking seriously with his pretty cousin. Mr Tom had been across to see her more than once already, to be sure, and had condescended to observe to many of his men acquaintances, on his return from his call, that Uncle Theodore’s girl, just come out from England, was really in her own way a most elegant and attractive creature. In Mr Tom’s opinion, she would sit splendidly at the head of the table at Pimento Valley. ‘A man in my position in life wants a handsome woman, you know,’ he said, ‘to do the honours, and keep up the dignity...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-fifth-95df6244/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-fifth-95df6244/chapters/1/index.md)