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The Queen’s Cup

CHAPTER 9
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The men can get to work early in the morning, and we can be here by two o'clock next day." "No, I think that we will come tomorrow, Major Mallett.
"It will be a novelty to sail in a cripple, won't it, mamma?
"Besides, you know, or you ought to know, that the day after tomorrow is Sunday, and that at present our plans are arranged for going up to town on Monday." "That being so," Frank said with a smile, "by all means come tomorrow.

Will you come to lunch, or afterwards ?" "Afterwards, I think.

We will be down at the club landing stage at half-past two." "Bertha is bent upon taking possession of you tomorrow," Lady Greendale said, smiling, as the girl turned away; "and I shall be glad for her to have a quiet two or three hours out of the racket.
A large party is very fatiguing, and I think that it has been too much for her.

Yesterday and today she has been quite unlike herself; at one time sitting quiet and saying nothing, at other times rattling away with Miss Haverley and Lady Olive, and absolutely talking down both of them, which I should have thought impossible.

She seems to me to be altogether over-excited.


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