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Hetty Wesley

CHAPTER III
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My name is Wesley also: Garrett Wesley, of Dangan, County Meath, in Ireland: I sit for my county in Parliament and pass in this world for a respectable person.

You'll excuse these details, ma'am; but when a man breaks in upon a family party at this hour of the night, he ought to give some account of himself." Mrs.Wesley rose from her chair and dropped him a stately curtsey.
"The name suffices for us, sir.

I make my compliments to one of my husband's family." "I'm obliged to you, ma'am, and pleased to hear the kinship acknowledged.

A good family, as families go, though I say it.
We have held on to Dangan since Harry Fifth's time; and to our name since Guy of Welswe was made a thane by Athelstan.

We have a knack, ma'am, of staying the course: small in the build but sound in the wind.


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