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The Absentee

CHAPTER I
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Torcaster knows something of Lady Clonbrony; she has fastened herself, by some means, upon him: but I charge him not to COMMIT me.

Positively, I could not for anybody--and much less for that sort of person--extend the circle of my acquaintance.' 'Now that is so cruel of your grace,' said Mrs.Dareville, laughing, 'when poor Lady Clonbrony works so hard, and pays so high, to get into certain circles.' 'If you knew all she endures, to look, speak, move, breathe like an Englishwoman, you would pity her,' said Lady Langdale.
'Yes, and you CAWNT conceive the PEENS she TEEKES to talk of the TEEBLES and CHEERS, and to thank Q, and, with so much TEESTE, to speak pure English,' said Mrs.Dareville.
'Pure cockney, you mean,' said Lady Langdale.
'But why does Lady Clonbrony want to pass for English ?' said the duchess.
'Oh! because she is not quite Irish.

BRED AND BORN--only bred, not born,' said Mrs.Dareville.

'And she could not be five minutes in your grace's company before she would tell you, that she was HENGLISH, born in HOXFORDSHIRE.' 'She must be a vastly amusing personage.

I should like to meet her, if one could see and hear her incog.,' said the duchess.


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