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The Law and the Lady

CHAPTER V
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No, no.

I noticed that you were as much shocked and surprised at your mother-in-law's conduct as I was; and that is saying a great deal--a great deal indeed.

However, I have a duty to perform.

It is disagreeable, but it is not the less a duty on that account.

I am a single woman; not from want of opportunities of changing my condition--I beg you will understand that--but from choice.
Situated as I am, I receive only the most respectable persons into my house.


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