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The American Senator

CHAPTER XII
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"Nothing at all I should think," said Miss Trefoil.

In the meantime old Mrs.Morton was standing by as black as thunder--for the Trefoil ladies had hardly noticed her.
The luggage turned up all right at last,--as luggage always does, and was stowed away in the cart.

Then came the carriage arrangement.
Morton had intended that the two elder ladies should go together with one of the maids, and that he should put his love into the other, which having a seat behind, could accommodate the second girl without disturbing them in the carriage.

But Lady Augustus had made some exception to this and had begged that her daughter might be seated with herself.

It was a point which Morton could not contest out there among the porters and drivers, so that at last he and his grandmother had the phaeton together with the two maids in the rumble.


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