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Our Friend the Charlatan

CHAPTER IX
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She likes to know everybody who is, or is going to be, somebody.

She'll ask you, no doubt, to her house in Pont Street, where you'll meet a great many fools and some reasonable people.

She herself, I may tell you, is no fool, but she has a good deal more patience with that sort than I ever had, and so, of course, has many more friends.

She's what they call a leader of Society, yet she doesn't grudge leaving London for a day or two in the beginning of the Season to do me a service." "I seem to know her name," said Dyce.
"Of course you do, if you ever read about what Society is doing." Lady Ogram always uttered the word with a contemptuous lip, but plainly she did not dislike to have it understood that Society, in certain of its representatives, took respectful account of her.
"And now," she continued, "I want to tell you about some other friends of mine you're to meet at dinner tomorrow.

Most of them belong to Hollingford, and you will have to know them." Very pungently did she sketch these personages.


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