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"At Halston, in Shropshire, the seat of the Myttons, is preserved a carving much resembling that mentioned by Walpole in his Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii., p. 42.
'Mrs Arthuret spoke of their going away for the winter; I do not think it will be a bad plan, for then we can start quite fresh with them; and the intimacy with the Myttons will be broken, though I am sorry for the poor girls. They have no harm in them, and Arthurine was doing them good.
'I am sorry she has taken up with those Myttons, said Miss Doyle. 'So am I, answered Susan. 'You too, Susie! exclaimed Bessie 'you, who never have a word to say against any one! 'I daresay they are very good girls, said Susan; 'but they are 'Underbred, put in Miss Doyle in the pause. 'And how they flatter!
'He laughs, and so does Bessie, said the mother. 'Laughs! Does he? But I do assure you Arthurine never meant any place in particular; she only intended to describe the way things go on in country districts, don't you understand? She was talking one day at the Myttons, and they were all so much amused that they wanted her to write it down.
'It is their thick skins, muttered she; 'at least so the Myttons said; but, indeed, I did not mean to be so personal as it was thought. 'But tell me. Why did you not get on with Mesa? 'That was a regular take-in. Not to tell one! When I began my German class, she put me out with useless explanations. 'What kind of explanations?
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