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Brother Copas

CHAPTER XIII
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What do you say, ladies ?" "I shall be happy for one," said Mrs.Clerihew, laying stress on the aspirate.

She was always careful of this, having lived with gentlefolks.

She burned to know if Brother Copas had heard her call Mrs.Royle a bitch.

Mrs.Royle (to do her justice) when enraged recked neither what she said nor who overheard.

But Mrs.Clerihew, between her lapses, clung passionately to gentility and the world's esteem.


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