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Afoot in England

CHAPTER Two: On Going Back
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At all events she sat for it to him.

You have probably heard of Lady Y-- ?" "What!" I exclaimed.

"Lady Y--: that funny old woman!" "No--middle-aged," he corrected, a little frigidly and perhaps a little mockingly at the same time.
"Very well, middle-aged if you like; I don't know her personally.

One hears about her; but I did not know she had a place in these parts." "She owns most of this parish and has done so much for us that we can very well look leniently on a little weakness--her wish that the future inhabitants of the place shall not remember her as a middle-aged woman not remarkable for good looks--'funny,' as you just now said." He was wonderfully candid, I thought.

But what extraordinary benefits had she bestowed on them, I asked, to enable them to regard, or to say, that this picture of a very beautiful young female was her likeness! "Why," he said, "the church would not have been built but for her.


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