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The Man Between

CHAPTER I
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It has been well invested, and father told me this morning I was a fairly rich little woman.

Basil has some private fortune, also his stipend--we shall do very well.

Basil's family is one of the finest among the old Boston aristocrats, and he is closely connected with the English Stanhopes, who rank with the greatest of the nobility." "I wish Americans would learn to rely on their own nobility.

I am tired of their everlasting attempts to graft on some English noble family.
No matter how great or clever a man may be, you are sure to read of his descent from some Scottish chief or English earl." "They can't help their descent, Ethel." "They need not pin all they have done on to it.

Often father frets me in the same way.


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