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Heart and Science

CHAPTER XXVII
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Judge what this house costs, and the carriages and horses, when I tell you that the rent of the stables alone is over a hundred pounds a year.

Lady Northlake has a superb place in Scotland.
Mrs.Gallilee is not able to rival her sister in that respect--but she has her marine villa in the Isle of Wight.

When Mr.Gallilee said you should have some sailing this autumn, did you think he meant that he would hire a boat?
He referred to the yacht, which is part of the establishment at the sea-side.

Lady Northlake goes yachting with her husband; and Mrs.Gallilee goes yachting with her husband.

Do you know what it costs, when the first milliner in Paris supplies English ladies with dresses?
That milliner's lowest charge for a dress which Mrs.
Gallilee would despise--ordinary material, my dear, and imitation lace--is forty pounds.


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