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The Disentanglers

Andrew Lang

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. . .The Laburnums could hardly be estimated as one of the stately homes of England.  Still, the lady was granted an interview.  She was what the Scots call ‘a buddy;’ that is, she was large, round, attired in black, between two ages, and not easily to be distinguished, by an unobservant eye, from buddies as a class.  After greetings, and when enthroned in the client’s chair, Mrs. Nicholson stated her case with simplicity and directness.

‘It is my ward,’ she said, ‘Barbara Monypenny.  I must tell you that she was left in my charge till she is twenty-six.  I and her lawyers make her an allowance out of her property, which she is to get when she marries with my consent, at whatever age.’

‘May I ask how old the lady is at present?’ said Merton.

‘She is twenty-two.’

‘Your kindness in taking charge of her is not not wholly uncompensated?’

‘No, an allowan. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Two young men, recent Oxbridge grads of impeccable social status and empty pockets, form a company to break up unsuitable engagements, drawing on the skills of similarly penurious peers.

Starts reasonably well, and although plots of the individual "cases" are a bit thin, there are intermittent flashe