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Mary Anerley

CHAPTER XXII
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How have you managed to learn it all?
You take the best of everything, without a word about it, as gently as great ladies do.

I thought that you would want me to eat the nicest pieces; but instead of that, you have left me bones and drumsticks." He gave such a melancholy look at these that Insie laughed quite merrily.

"I wanted to see you practice chivalry," she said.
"Well, never mind; I shall know another time.

Instead of two birds, I shall order four, and other things in proportion.

But now I want to know about your father and your mother.


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