"Why," said she, "those Damers, I fear, are dangerous people."
"Do you mean that they will borrow money of him?"
"Oh, no; not that, exactly; but they are clearly setting their cap at
him."
"Setting their cap at him?"
"Yes; there is a daughter, you know; a little chit of a thing; and I
fear Mr. Ingram may be caught before he knows where he is. It would be
such a pity, you know. He is going up the river with them, I hear.
That, in his place, is very foolish. They asked me, but I positively
refused."
Mr. Burton remarked that "In such a matter as that Mr. Ingram would be
perfectly able to take care of himself."
"Well, perhaps so; but seeing what was going on, I thought it my duty
to tell you." And so Miss Dawkins took her leave.
Mr. Ingram did go up the Nile with the Damers, as did an old friend of
the Damers who arrived from England. And a very pleasant trip they had
of it. And, as far as the present historian knows, the two lovers were
shortly afterwards married in England.
Poor Miss Dawkins was left in Cairo for some time on her beam ends.
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