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The Duke’s Children

CHAPTER XII
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But why are you asking about him, Lady Cantrip ?" "Nidderdale was talking to me about him and saying that he was so much with Lord Silverbridge.

Lord Silverbridge is going into Parliament now, and, as it were, beginning the world, and it would be a thousand pities that he should get into bad hands." It may, however, be doubted whether Miss Cassewary was hoodwinked by this little story.
Early in the second week in May the Duke brought his daughter up to The Horns, and at the same time expressed his intention of remaining in London.

When he did so Lady Mary at once asked whether she might not be with him,--but he would not permit it.

The house in London would, he said, be more gloomy even than Matching.
"I am quite ashamed of giving you so much trouble," Lady Mary said to her new friend.
"We are delighted to have you, my dear." "But I know that you have been obliged to leave London because I am with you." "There is nothing I like so much as this place, which your father has been kind enough to lend us.

As for London, there is nothing now to make me like being there.


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