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Penelope’s English Experiences

CHAPTER X
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As a sample of her stock please note: A superlatively exquisite, essentially beautiful, and important lace flounce for sale, at a reasonable price.

Also a bargain of peerlessly choice character .-- Six grandly glittering paste cluster buttons, of important size, emitting dazzling rays of incomparable splendour and lustre.

Don't readily forget this or her name and address,--Clara (Miss) Willard (the Lady Trader), Waddington, Essex.

Immaculate promptitude and scrupulous liberality observed: therefore, on these credentials, ye must deal with her; it is the duty of intellect to be reciprocal.'" Just here Dawson entered, evidently to lay the dinner-cloth, but, seeing that we had a visitor, he took the tea-tray and retired discreetly.
"It is five-and-thirty minutes past six, Mr.Beresford," I said.

"Do you think you can get to the Metropole and array yourself and return in less than an hour?
Because, even if you can, remember that we ladies have elaborate toilets in prospect,--toilets intended for the complete prostration of the British gentry.


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