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The Hoyden

CHAPTER XXI
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_You,_ who have lived with them for a hundred years, will be nowhere; she'll always be able to tell you something about them you never heard before.
"Isn't he ?" says she; she is now regarding the heavy girl with suppressed, but keen, amusement.

"And to be funny in this serious age is unpardonable.

Don't do it again, Captain Warrender, as you value your life." "I shan't!" says he.

"A second attempt might be fatal!" "How well Mr.Hescott dances!" goes on Mrs.Chichester, who admires Tom Hescott.
"True.

The very worst of us, you see, have _one_ good point," says Gower.
"I don't consider Mr.Hescott the worst of you, by a long way," returns she.
"Oh no, neither do I," says a pretty little woman next to her, a bride of a few weeks, who, with her husband, has just come up.
"I have you on my side then, Lady Selton ?" says Mrs.Chichester.
Lady Selton nods her reply.


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