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New Grub Street

CHAPTER VII
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'You really must have more lunch, dear.

It isn't right to go so long; you'll make yourself ill.' 'Have you been out ?' Marian asked.
'Yes; I went to Holloway.' Mrs Yule sighed and looked very unhappy.

By 'going to Holloway' was always meant a visit to her own relatives--a married sister with three children, and a brother who inhabited the same house.

To her husband she scarcely ever ventured to speak of these persons; Yule had no intercourse with them.

But Marian was always willing to listen sympathetically, and her mother often exhibited a touching gratitude for this condescension--as she deemed it.
'Are things no better ?' the girl inquired.
'Worse, as far as I can see.


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