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She closed her lips

"Youthat

tirade," answered Georgiana "Everybody knows you are the most

selfish, heartless creature in existence: and I know your spiteful

hatred towards me: I have had a specimen of it before in the trick

you played me about Lord Edwin Vere: you could not bear me to be

raised above you, to have a title, to be received into circles where

you dare not show your face, and so you acted the spy and inforiana took out her

handkerchief and blew her nose for an hour afterwards; Eliza sat

cold, ienerous feeling is made small account of by some, but here

were two natures rendered, the one intolerably acrid, the other

despicably savourless for the want of it Feeling without judg is too

bitter and husky a lutition

It was a wet and windy afternoon: Georgiana had fallen asleep on

the sofa over the perusal of a novel; Eliza was gone to attend a

saint's-day service at the new church--for in id fore of what she considered her devotional duties; fair or

foul, she went to church thrice every Sunday, and as often on week-

days as there were prayers

I bethoughtwoman sped,