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The Honorable Miss

CHAPTER XIX
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Violent exercise puts you into too great a heat, and then you're taken with a chill, and lots of mischief is done that way.

Bee, lend me your arm, love.

I'm more recovered now, but I did have to hurry after you, and that's a fact." Determined women very often have their way, and Mrs.Bell had the satisfaction of walking in front with Beatrice, while Captain Bertram brought up the rear in Matty's company.
Sophy and Alice Bell no longer belonged to the group.

They had found matters so intolerably dull that they started off on their own hook to find partners for tennis.
Mrs.Bell, as she walked in front with Beatrice heard Matty's little and inane giggles, and her heart swelled within her.
"Poor young man, he is devoted," she whispered to her companion.

"Ah, dear me, Beatrice, I know you sympathize with me; when one has a dear child's fate trembling in the balance it's impossible not to be anxious." Mrs.Bell's face was so solemn, and her words so portentous, that Beatrice was really taken in.


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