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The Palace Beautiful

CHAPTER XXII
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If she is very nice, confide in her, and tell her she is to look to me for payment, but she is on no account to let out this fact to the girls.

Kensington is a nice, quiet, respectable neighborhood; you might take the drawing-room floor of a very quiet, nice house, and ask the landlady to offer it to the girls for five shillings a week, or something nominal of that sort.

Primrose is so innocent at present that she will think five shillings quite a large sum; but tell the lady of the house to let it include all extras--I mean such as gas and firing.

I suppose you could not get a house with the electric light ?--no, of course not; it is not used yet in private dwellings--gas is so unwholesome, but the girls might use candles.
Tell the landlady to provide them with the best candles, and tell her I'll pay her something handsome if she'll go out with them.

And, my dear Arthur, _don't_ let them go in omnibuses.


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