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A Lost Leader

CHAPTER VI
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Her mother was nervously crumpling into a ball her tiny lace handkerchief.

Mrs.
Phillimore rose abruptly from her seat.
"Have you got the brandy and soda, Hester ?" she asked.
"I'm afraid I forgot it, mother," the girl answered.

"Mayn't I make you some Russian tea?
I've had the lemon sliced." The woman laughed, a little unnaturally.
"What a dutiful daughter," she exclaimed.

"That's right! I want looking after, don't I?
I'll have the tea, Hester, but send it up to my room.

I'm going to lie down.


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