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Mr. Scarborough’s Family

CHAPTER XVI
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It was supposed in the neighborhood to be completely weather-tight.
The unimaginative nature of Fulham did not allow the Fulham mind to gather in the fact that, at the same time, she might possess two or three such hats.

But they were undoubtedly precisely similar, and she would wear them in London with exactly the same indifference as in the comparatively rural neighborhood of her own residence.

She would, in truth, go up and down in the omnibus, and would do so alone, without the slightest regard to the opinion of any of her neighbors.

The Carroll girls would laugh at her behind her back, but no Carroll girl had been seen ever to smile before her face, instigated to do so by their cousin's vagaries.
But I have not yet mentioned that attribute of Miss Grey's which is, perhaps, the most essential in her character.

It is necessary, at any rate, that they should know it who wish to understand her nature.


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