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"Dreadful grind, isn't it? But, somehow, it gets hold of you; there's a kind of fascination in literature." He spoke the magic word with the air of quite an old, old man of letters. "I ought to have been a grocer. My father's got a shop in Middleswick; he calls it The Emporium. I think that's why I couldn't stick it. Pity, isn't it? for it's a rattling good business.
Lady Tatham gave what seemed to be family news how "John" had been sent to Teheran and "George" was to be military secretary in Dublin and "Barbara" to the astonishment of everybody had consented to be made a Woman of the Bedchamber "poor Queen!" how Reginald Pratt had been handsomely turned out of the Middleswick seat, and was probably going to "rat" to an Opposition that promised more than the Government that Cecilia's eldest girl "a pretty little minx" had been already presented, and was likely to prove as skilful a campaigner for a husband as her mother before her that "Gerald" had lost heavily at Newmarket, and was now a financial nuisance, borrowing from everybody in the family and so on, and so on.
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