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Hyacinth

CHAPTER VI
12/31

An old one will do.
It's disgusting to see a woman slopping about in a dressing-gown at this time of day.

I'll have tea ready when you come back.' Miss O'Dwyer obeyed sulkily.

She wished very much that Augusta Goold had stopped at home.

It would have been a great deal pleasanter to have gone on practising hysterics with Hyacinth as a sympathetic spectator.

When the door was shut Augusta Goold turned to Hyacinth again.
'That's the worst of women'-- apparently she did not consider herself as one of the sex--'they are all right at the time (nothing could have been better than Mary's behaviour at the meeting), but they collapse afterwards in such idiotic ways.


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