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"Yes? She's awfully pretty And very young, too A connection of the

Wolfers', isn't she? Rather sad face"

"A face with a history," said Lady Angleford,about her, duchess?"

Her grace shrugged her fat shoulders sleepily

"Nothing at all She's here as a kind of lady co of

the sort Yes, she's pretty, decidedly Are you going on to the

Meridues' reception?"

Nell sat down and played her prelude rather nervously; then she sang one

of the songs which she had sung in The Cottage at Shorne Mills--one of

the songs to which Drake had never see There was

a lull in the lifeless, perfunctory conversation, and one or two of the

sleepy wo us so else, Nell!" said Lady Wolfer

Nell was in thewhen the ht into the roo about the doors, and, hiding their yawns, glanced quite

openly at their watches

The earlby the fire, her