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The Honorable Miss

CHAPTER XXIX
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And there's no young woman who oughtn't to be here, concealed on these premises.

(Maria, stay looking out at the window for a minute.) There's no strange young woman here, oh, of course not.

Poor Bell, honest man, only _fancies_ he has a visitor in the house." Here Mrs.Bell turned ghastly pale.

Mrs.Butler saw that she had unexpectedly driven a nail home, and with fiendish glee pursued her advantage.
"A visitor! oh, yes, _all the lodgings were full,_ packed! and it was so convenient to take in a visitor a--_friend._ Hunt the baker has been speaking about it.

I didn't listen--I make it a point _never_ to listen to gossip--but Maria--Maria, you can come here now.


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