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The President

CHAPTER III
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Then without saying upon what her sorrow was hinged, she proceeded.

"Mr.Gwynn, I hear--I don't know him personally, but hope soon to have that pleasure--is a gentleman of highest breeding.

My brother assures me that he has most delightful manners.

I know I shall adore him.

If there's anything I wholly admire it is an old-school English gentleman--they have so much refinement, so much elevation!" "It might not become me," returned Richard, in what Mrs.Hanway-Harley took to be a spirit of diffidence, "to laud the deportment of Mr.Gwynn.
But what should you expect in one who all his life has had about him the best society of England ?" "Ah! I can see you like him--venerate him!" This with ardor.
"I won't answer for the veneration," returned Richard.


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