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The Country House

CHAPTER VIII
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How long is that?
Two years?
But you know, Grig, the Maidens were quite upset about her.

Do you think a divorce is really necessary ?" Gregory Vigil answered: "I'm afraid it is." Mrs.Pendyce met her cousin's gaze serenely; if anything, her brows were uplifted more than usual; but, as at the stirring of secret trouble, her fingers began to twine and twist.

Before her rose a vision of George and Mrs.Bellew side by side.

It was a vague maternal feeling, an instinctive fear.

She stilled her fingers, let her eyelids droop, and said: "Of course, dear Grig, if I can help you in any way--Horace does so dislike anything to do with the papers." Gregory Vigil drew in his breath.
"The papers!" he said.


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