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CHAPTER XIII
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Herbert Octoyne will give 'em family, if they really haven't it; and the Octoynes won't be sorry for her money.

What a pretty shawl! Did you hear that Mellish Whitloe has given Laura a diamond pin which cost five hundred dollars?
Extravagant fellow! Yet I like to have young men do these things handsomely.

I do think it's such a pity about Laura's nose--" "She can smell with it, I suppose, mother; and what else do you want of a nose ?" It was Miss Fanny Newt who spoke, and who had entered the room during the conversation.

She was a tall young woman of about twenty, with firm, dark eyes, and abundant dark hair, and that kind of composure of manner which is called repose in drawing-rooms and boldness in bar-rooms.
"Gracious, Fanny, how you do disturb one! I didn't know you were there.
Don't be ridiculous.

Of course she can smell with it.


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