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A Hungarian Nabob

CHAPTER X
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"This admirable lady is certainly one of those in whom your ladyship can repose your confidence without running the risk of being deceived." Fanny read the name indicated--"Flora Eszeky Szentirmay." "What is this lady like ?" she inquired of the old man.
"Verily, I should have need of very great eloquence to describe her to you worthily.

She is rich in all the virtues one looks for in a woman.
Gentleness and prudence go hand in hand with her.

The oppressed and downtrodden find in her a secret protector; for she does her good deeds in secret, and forbids grateful tongues to talk about her.

Not only is it the hungry, the naked, the sick, and the wretched among whom she distributes bread, garments, medicine, and kind words, who know what a good heart she has; not only is it those under legal sentence, for whom she pleads compassionately in high places: her benevolence goes much further than all that; for she takes the part of those who are spiritually poor and wretched, those whom the world condemns, poor betrayed girls who have tripped into endless misery, poor women bending beneath the crosses of a hard domestic life; and they all find in her a friend, a defender who can get to the bottom of their hearts.

Pardon me for presuming so far.


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