When Corbin joined the Warriners on their trip up the Nile it was
considered by all of them, in their ignorance, a happy accident.
Other mothers, more worldly than Mrs. Warriner, with daughters less
attractive, gave her undeserved credit for having lured into her
party one of the young men of Boston who was most to be desired as a
son-in-law. But the mind of Mrs. Warriner, so far as Mr. Corbin was
concerned, was quite free from any such consideration; so was the
mind of the young bachelor; certainly Miss Warriner held no tender
thoughts concerning him. The families of the Warriners and the
Corbins had been friends ever since the cowpath crossed the Common.
Before Corbin entered Harvard Miss Warriner and he had belonged to
the same dancing-class. Later she had danced with him at four class-
days, and many times between. When he graduated, she had gone abroad
with her mother, and he had joined the Somerset Club, and played polo
at Pride's Crossing, and talked vaguely of becoming a lawyer, and of
re-entering Harvard by the door of the Law School, chiefly, it was
supposed, that he might have another year of the football team. He
was very young in spirit, very big and athletic, very rich, and
without a care or serious thought.
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