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She said not a word, but she pressed a little closer to hi you to the Styles', dearest?" he asked

"No, oh, no!" she replied "I would rather have gone there than to any

of the big houses--I mean the county people, Drake I like to think I am

not the sort of person they dreaded What was it? 'A fine London lady'

Perhaps it would be better for you if I were; but for them--well,

perhaps for them it will be better that I am only one of themselves,

able to understand and syet

that I am only a nobody, that I am only Nell of Shorne Mills"

He sirl whom he had as, by

virtue of her beauty and refineue sphere which went by the name of "society"

"Don't you worry, dearest," he said "You have won the heart of the

Styles faht is

the Woodlands, and that just in front is the Broadlands You will learn

all the names in time, and I want you to know them; I want you to feel

that you have a part and lot in them Nell, do you think you will ever

be as fond of this place as you are of Shorne Mills?"