"Why, that is a lady's purse," said Mrs. Brooke, who was sitting by my side. "Who had the audacity to give it to you?
"A Miss Grey, who was an old sweetheart of mine," I replied.
"Then I am jealous," said Mrs. Brooke. And she always says that she is jealous of Miss Grey. However, Miss Grey is the only person who has ever given her cause for jealousy.
Three days afterward the numerous readers of the matrimonial announcements in the London daily papers were informed of a marriage which had taken place by special license at 41 York Place five years previously, between James Brooke, only son of the late Reverend Robert Brooke, and Catherine O'Flaherty, only daughter of the late Michael O'Flaherty, Esq.
[Transcriber's Notes:]
This story was originally published in Belgravia: An Illustrated London Magazine in 1886; it was later reprinted as filler material in the Favorite Library edition of Little Golden's Daughter by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller. This text is derived from the later reprint.
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