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Jezebel’s Daughter

CHAPTER X
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"I thought you lived in London, with your aunt." Here Minna interposed for the first time.
"You forget, mamma, that there are three names in the business.

The inscription over the door in Main Street is Wagner, Keller, and Engelman.
Fritz once told me that the office here in Frankfort was only the small office--and the grand business was Mr.Wagner's business in London.

Am I right, Mr.David ?" "Quite right, Miss Minna.

But we have no such magnificent flower-garden at the London house as Mr.Engelman's flower-garden here.

May I offer you a nosegay which he allowed me to gather ?" I had hoped to make the flowers a means of turning the conversation to more interesting topics.


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