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The Awkward Age

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"I said to you just now that I knew the mothers, but it would have been more to the point to say the grandmothers." He stopped before his young friend, then nodded at the image of Nanda.

"I knew HERS.

She put it at something less." Vanderbank rather failed to understand.

"The old lady?
Put what ?" Mr.Longdon's face showed him as for a moment feeling his way.

"I'm speaking of Mrs.Brookenham.She spoke of her daughter as only sixteen." Vanderbank's amusement at the tone of this broke out.


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