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Evan Harrington

CHAPTER XVII
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Why, it insults me!' Lady Jocelyn looked out from a lofty window on such veritable squabbles of boys and girls as Rose revealed.
'Can't you help them to run on smoothly while they're here ?' she said to Drummond, and he related the scene at the Green Dragon.
'I think I heard he was the son of Sir Something Harrington, Devonshire people,' said Lady Jocelyn.
'Yes, he is,' cried Rose, 'or closely related.

I'm sure I understood the Countess that it was so.

She brought the paper with the death in it to us in London, and shed tears over it.' 'She showed it in the paper, and shed tears over it ?' said Drummond, repressing an inclination to laugh.

'Was her father's title given in full ?' 'Sir Abraham Harrington, replied Rose.

'I think she said father, if the word wasn't too common-place for her.' 'You can ask old Tom when he comes, if you are anxious to know,' said Drummond to her ladyship.


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