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Helena

CHAPTER I
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I can't imagine how we shall get on, now that he is my guardian.

I shall put him in a temper twenty times a day." "Ah, but the satisfactory thing now is that you will have to put up with my remarks.

I have a legal right now to say what I like." "H'm," said Helena, demurring, "if there are legal rights nowadays." "There, Mrs.Friend--you hear ?" said Lord Buntingford, toying with his cigarette, in the depths of a big chair, and watching his ward with eyes of evident enjoyment.

"You've got a Bolshevist to look after--a real anarchist.

I'm sorry for you." "That's another of his peculiarities!" said the girl coolly, "queering the pitch before one begins.


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