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Penny Plain

CHAPTER XXI
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It's full of steep streets and east winds and high houses, and you can't move a step without treading on a W.S., but it's a fine place for all that." "It's a fairy-tale place to see," Pamela said.

"The castle at sunset, the sudden glimpses of the Forth, Holyrood dreaming in the mist--these are pictures that will remain with one always.

But Glasgow--" "I know almost nothing of Glasgow," said Mrs.Hope, "but I like the people that come from it.

They are not so devoured by gentility as our Edinburgh friends; they are more living, more human...." "Are Edinburgh people very refined ?" "Oh, some of them can hardly see out of their eyes for gentility.

I delight in it myself, though I've never attained to it.


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