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"For heaven's sake, irl, try a fresh start It would take an o about"

"It's not a tih about your not going to church "

With a groan he plunged back into his book

"NEWLAND! Do listen Your friend Madaht: she went there with the Duke and Mr Beaufort"

At the last clause of this announce hed "Well, what of it? I knew she an to project "You knew she meant to--and you didn't try to stop her? To warn her?"

"Stop her? Warn her?" He laughed again "I'ed to be married to the Countess Olenska!" The words had a fantastic sound in his own ears

"You'reinto her family"

"Oh, family--family!" he jeered

"Newland--don't you care about Fa"

"Nor about what cousin Louisa van der Luyden will think?"

"Not the half of one--if she thinks such old in sister with pinched lips

He felt like shouting back: "Yes, she is, and so are the van der Luydens, and so we all are, when it co-tip of Reality" But he saw her long gentle face puckering into tears, and felt asha Countess Olenska! Don't be a goose, Janey--I'm not her keeper"

"No; but you DID ask the Wellands to announce your engageht all back her up; and if it hadn't been for that cousin Louisa would never have invited her to the dinner for the Duke"

"Well--what har woman in the room; she made the dinner a little less funereal than the usual van der Luyden banquet"

"You know cousin Henry asked her to please you: he persuaded cousin Louisa And now they're so upset that they're going back to Skuytercliff tomorrow I think, Newland, you'd better come down You don't see-room Newland found his mother She raised a troubled brow from her needlework to ask: "Has Janey told you?"

"Yes" He tried to keep his tone as measured as her own "But I can't take it very seriously"

"Not the fact of having offended cousin Louisa and cousin Henry?"

"The fact that they can be offended by such a trifle as Countess Olenska's going to the house of a woman they consider common"