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Emily Fox-Seton

CHAPTER Four
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She knew where the toys were kept and what prizes were to be given for the races.

She represented law and order and bestowal.

The other ladies walked about in wonderful dresses, smiling and exalted, the gentlemen aided the sports in an amateurish way and made patrician jokes among themselves, but this one lady seemed to be part of the treat itself.

She was not so grandly dressed as the others,--her dress was only blue linen with white bands on it,--and she had only a sailor hat with a buckle and bow, but she was of her ladyship's world of London people, nevertheless, and they liked her more than they had ever liked a lady before.

It was a fine treat, and she seemed to have made it so.


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