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Madame Flirt

CHAPTER XIII
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Pepusch must hear you sing.

Then--but I dare not say more." Lavinia surveyed the hard face and the double chin of the musical director disapprovingly.
"I don't take to him," said she.

"Is he an Englishman ?" "No--he comes from Germany.

Like King George and Queen Caroline." Lavinia frowned.
"Some of the people in St.Giles I've heard call the Royal Family Hanoverian rats," she exclaimed indignantly, "and those German women who pocketted everything they could lay their hands upon--the 'Maypole' and the 'Elephant,' the one because she's so lean and the other because she's so fat--they're rats too.

Fancy the King making them into an English duchess and countess.


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