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Emily Fox-Seton

CHAPTER Seven
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They could do anything they chose, and were so blissfully sufficient for each other that there was no reason why they should not follow their every errant fancy.
The lines which had been increasing in Lady Claraway's face had disappeared, and left her blooming with the beauty her daughters had reproduced.

This delightful marriage had smoothed away every difficulty.
Sir Bruce was the "most charming fellow in England." That fact acted as a charm in itself, it seemed.

It was not necessary to go into details as to the mollifying of tradespeople and rearranging of the entire aspect of life at Curzon Street.

When Agatha and Emily Fox-Seton met in town for the first time--it was in the drawing room at South Audley Street--they clasped each other's hands with an exchange of entirely new looks.
"You look so--so _well_, Miss Fox-Seton," said Agatha, with actual tenderness.
If she had not been afraid of seeming a little rudely effusive she would have said "handsome" instead of "well," for Emily was sweetly blooming.
"Happiness is becoming to you," she added.

"May I say how _glad_ I am ?" "Thank you, thank you!" Emily answered.


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