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I'm not going to have those English laughing at us, and I won't say papa and mamma. Everybody that knows anything says father and mother now." Boyne kept looking from one sister to another during Lottie's declaration, and, with his eyes on Ellen, he said, "It's true, Ellen. All the Plumptons did." He was very serious. Ellen smiled. "I'm too old to change.
The Plumptons have been laughing so about them, and I told them that we had nothing to do with them at home, and had fairly turned Bittridge out of the house, but he had impudence enough for anything; and now to find Ellen going off to the theatre with him alone!"
Well, I hope to goodness you won't say anything about it till the Plumptons get away. I couldn't have the face to meet them if you did." "It won't be necessary to say anything; or you can say that we've merely postponed our sailing. People are always doing that."
Good fortune has preserved in various English archives several great collections of family letters written in the fifteenth century. Finest of all are the famous Paston Letters, written by and to a family of Norfolk gentlefolk, and crammed with information about high politics and daily life. Less interesting, but valuable all the same, are the letters of the Plumptons, who were lords in Yorkshire.
How well he has planned this trip to Europe for me and the girls the court-presentation at Berlin, the season on the Riviera, the visits in England with the Plumptons and the Halverstones. He says Lord Halverstone has the finest old house in Sussex, pure Elizabethan, and all the old customs are kept up, too family prayers every morning for all the domestics.
How well he has planned this trip to Europe for me and the girls the court-presentation at Berlin, the season on the Riviera, the visits in England with the Plumptons and the Halverstones. He says Lord Halverstone has the finest old house in Sussex, pure Elizabethan, and all the old customs are kept up, too family prayers every morning for all the domestics.
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