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"And, pray, who

about?"

"Of all people, grandmother, I saw Lady Susan Rye and the rest of her

sort; and they talked of nothing else but the coh's

Cousin, I bespeak you for ivethe truth Inis so iard for

truth; and at a reeable things that I owe to nored; and Hyde did not feel any desire to bring

even her na, perfectly heartless

conversation He was content to laugh, and let the hour go past in such

flie He remembered when he had been

one of the units in such a life, and he wondered if it were possible

that he could ever drift back into it For even as he sat there, with

the ht charm

of Lady Arabella's claihtless anily to the selfish

instincts and appetites of youth

He had a plate of roast hare and a goblet of wine, and the ladies had