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Eleanor

CHAPTER XIV
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Yet there are some uncommon good things in it too!' he said, with a change of tone.
'Well, if you did bury it,' said Lucy, half laughing, yet trying to pluck up courage to obey the Ambassador,--'what would you do?
Go back to England ?--and--and to your property ?' 'What! has that dear old man been talking to you ?' he said with amusement.
'I thought as much.

He has snubbed my views and me two or three times lately.

I don't mind.

He is one of the privileged.

So the Ambassador thinks I should go home ?' He threw one arm over the back of the seat, and threw her a brilliant hectoring look which led her on.
'Don't people in England think so too ?' 'Yes--some of them,' he said considering.


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