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Diana of the Crossways

CHAPTER II
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He and the Beauty were named to one another, and they chatted through a quadrille.

Sir Lukin introduced a fellow-Harrovian of old days, Mr.Thomas Redworth, to his wife.
'Our weather-prophet, meteorologist,' he remarked, to set them going; 'you remember, in India, my pointing to you his name in a newspaper--letter on the subject.

He was generally safe for the cricketing days.' Lady Dunstane kindly appeared to call it to mind, and she led upon the them-queried at times by an abrupt 'Eh ?' and 'I beg pardon,' for manifestly his gaze and one of his ears, if not the pair, were given to the young lady discoursing with Lord Larrian.

Beauty is rare; luckily is it rare, or, judging from its effect on men, and the very stoutest of them, our world would be internally more distracted planet than we see, to the perversion of business, courtesy, rights of property, and the rest.

She perceived an incipient victim, of the hundreds she anticipated, and she very tolerantly talked on: 'The weather and women have some resemblance they say.


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