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Can You Forgive Her?

CHAPTER XXII
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Sometimes I wish there were no such things as looks.
I don't mean anything improper, you know; only one does get so hampered, right and left, for fear of Mrs Grundy.

I endeavour to go straight, and get along pretty well on the whole, I suppose.

Baker, you must put Dandy in the bar; he pulls so, going home, that I can't hold him in the check." She stopped the horses, and Baker, a very completely-got-up groom of some forty years of age, who sat behind, got down and put the impetuous Dandy "in the bar," thereby changing the rein, so that the curb was brought to bear on him.

"They're called Dandy and Flirt," continued Lady Glencora, speaking to Alice.
"Ain't they a beautiful match?
The Duke gave them to me and named them himself.

Did you ever see the Duke ?" "Never," said Alice.
"He won't be here before Christmas, but you shall be introduced some day in London.


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