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Jezebel’s Daughter

CHAPTER XXIV
12/19

Minna entered the room with a message.
"Mamma has sent me, Mrs.Wagner, to ask at what time you would like to dine." "My dear, I am much obliged to your mother.

I have only just breakfasted, and I can wait quite well till supper-time comes.

Stop a minute! Here is my nephew driving me to the utmost verge of human endurance, by making a mystery of Mr.Engelman's absence from Frankfort.

Should I be very indiscreet if I asked--Good gracious, how the girl blushes! You are evidently in the secret too, Miss Minna.

_Is_ it an opera-dancer?
Leave us together, David." This made Minna's position simply unendurable.


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