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wasn't a duke in the fa?"

"You were probably reading Bertha M Clay," retorted her father, only

too glad of such an opening

"What is your opinion of titles, Mr Webb?" she asked callishman, Kitty," re his point of vieas the reply

"A title, if ravely at his egg-cup

"A hurew, as if he had discovered a dodo

"Really, no I a

this time; and when he s on her elbows, her folded hands propping her chin; and in his

soul Tho critical

blue eyes of hers Why was she always looking at hilish are dull and stupid," he said

"Now you areyour pardon!"

She dropped her hands frohed "Do you really

wish to know the real secret of our antagonism, Mr Webb?"