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Tracy Park

CHAPTER IV
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You are altogether too economical.

I've told you so a hundred times, and now there is no need of saving.

I want to see you a lady of silks and satins like Mrs.Atherton.Pump that girl.

I tell you, and find out what ladies do!' This was Frank's advice to his wife, and as far as in her lay she acted upon it, and whatever Susan told her was done by Mrs.Atherton at Brier Hill, she tried to do at Tracy Park: all except staying out of the kitchen.

That, from her nature, she could not and would not do.
Consequently she was constantly changing cooks, and frequently took the helm herself, to the great disgust of her husband, who managed at last to imbue her with his own ideas of things.
In course of time most of the neighbors who had any claim to society called at the park, and among them Mrs.Crawford.But Mrs.Tracy had then reached a point from which she looked down upon one who had been housekeeper where she was now mistress, and whose daughter's good name was under a cloud, as there were some who did not believe that Harold Hastings had ever made her his wife.


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