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The Country House

CHAPTER V
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The Cheritons of Bovey are mentioned in Twisdom.

I like young people to enjoy themselves." A smile illumined softly the fine wrinkles round her eyes.

Beneath her lavender satin bodice, with strips of black velvet banding it at intervals, her heart was beating faster than usual.

She was thinking of a night in her youth, when her old playfellow, young Trefane of the Blues, danced with her nearly all the evening, and of how at her window she saw the sun rise, and gently wept because she was married to Horace Pendyce.
"I always feel sorry for a woman who can dance as she does.

I should have liked to have got some men from town, but Horace will only have the county people.


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