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She had been with others at such times. It held no goblin terrors for her. Had it not been for Martin's heartlessness, she would have felt wholly equal to the occasion. As it was, she made little commotion. Dr. Bradley, gentle and direct, had been the Conroys' family physician for years. Nellie, who arrived in an hour, had been through the experience often herself, and was friendly and helpful.
The blind woman in her corner across the hearth seemed to have caught the last word, for she abruptly said, "Ay, ay, it's there I'm goin', and the first of the Morroughs iver wint on the rates, or the Conroys aither. But I'm not takin' their name along wid me; troth no; sorra the Ellen Morrough 'ill they find in it." "Sure not at all, woman dear," said Theresa. "Why, Mrs.
It would depend more upon her than your father and brothers." "What would depend on her?" "Well, I mean you grumble at Dick and Humphrey knowing more people than you do." "I suppose what you do mean is that the Birkets aren't as good as the Clintons." There was the slightest pause. Then Muriel said, a little defiantly, "Well, the Grahams aren't as good as the Conroys."
Melbury Park opened its eyes still wider at the number of titles represented amongst the donors, for the Clintons, as has been said, had frequently married blood, and many of their relations were represented, Walter had been popular with his school and college friends, and on Muriel's side the Conroys and their numerous connections had come down handsomely in the way of Georgian sugar-sifters, gold and enamelled umbrella tops, silver bowls and baskets and bridge boxes, writing-sets, and candlesticks, and other things more or less adapted to the use of a doctor's wife in a rather poor suburb of London.
I've been wondering that you didn't wish to do it long before now. 'Have you? I'll tell you why. Thinking Madame Frabelle was a pal, er a friend of the Conroys, it stood to reason, don't you see, that she knew everyone in London; or could, if she liked everyone worth knowing, I mean. Under these circumstances there was no point in well in showing off our friends to her.
"Oh! then I don't know what you mean by a swell." "Well, of course the Conroys are swells in a way, but they don't care about swelling. If mother had liked and father had let her she could have been a fashionable lady, and dear Muriel could have been a fashionable girl, with her picture in the illustrated papers, sitting in front of a lattice window with a sweet white frock and a bunch of lilies.
Dulcie, who had a sensitive and sensible horror of snobbishness, felt sorry to know that her father would casually mention that his daughter was staying with the Conroys in Carlton House Terrace, and that her stepmother would scold her unless she recollected every dress she happened to see there. Still, on the whole she felt cheered.
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