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Nell re that she should discuss her

host and employer; and she wondered whether the clever undersecretary

beside her kneho she was and the position she held in the house She

did not know enough of the world to be aware that nowadays one discusses

one's friends--even at their own tables--with a freedoeneration

"I often think," he continued, "that Lord Wolfer would have served the

moralists as an instance of the vanity of hu

"Think of it!" he said, with a slight laugh "He is the bearer of an old

and honored title, he is passing rich, he is a cabinetlady--we agreed that she is

pretty, too, didn't we?--and----" He paused a moment "Should you say

that Lord Wolfer is a happy nificant question, which explained his remark about

the vanity of human wishes, Nell looked at the earl He was apparently

listening to the duchess by his side; but his eyes, under their

straight, dark broere fixed upon his wife, who, leaning forward

slightly, was listening with downcast eyes and a smile to Sir Archie, a

few chairs from her