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The Paying Guest

CHAPTER I
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Terms not so much a consideration as comfort and pleasant society.

No boarding-house .-- Address: Louise, Messrs.

Higgins & Co., Fenchurch St., E.C.' She read it again and again.
'It wouldn't be nice if people said that we were taking lodgers.' 'No fear of that.

This is evidently some well-to-do person.

It's a very common arrangement nowadays, you know; they are called "paying guests." Of course I shouldn't dream of having anyone you didn't thoroughly like the look of.' 'Do you think,' asked Emmeline doubtfully, 'that we should quite _do_?
"Well-connected family"-- ' 'My dear girl! Surely we have nothing to be ashamed of ?' 'Of course not, Clarence.


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