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The Awkward Age

BOOK FIFTH
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We should call Dr.Beltram in England a priest." "Oh but he's English.

And he knows everything we do--and everything we think." "'We'-- your aunt, your governess and your nurse?
What a varied wealth of knowledge!" "Ah Miss Merriman and Gelsomina tell him only what they like." "And do you and the Duchess tell him what you DON'T like ?" "Oh often--but we always like HIM--no matter what we tell him.

And we know that just the same he always likes us." "I see then of course," said Mr.Longdon, very gravely now, "what a friend he must be.

So it's after all this," he continued in a moment, "that Nanda comes in ?" His companion had to consider, but suddenly she caught assistance.

"This one, I think, comes before." Lord Petherton, arriving apparently from the garden, had drawn near unobserved by Mr.Longdon and the next moment was within hail.


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