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Her manner, Wharton noticed, kept always the same gay philosophy, whatever subject turned up. "Why, that's an old story that Tudley End business " said Marcella, rising. "I should have thought Westall might have got over it by now." "But bless yer, ee says it's goin' on as lively as iver.
In the Tudley End division, Aldous Raeburn was fighting a somewhat younger opponent of the same country-gentleman stock a former fag indeed of his at Eton whose zeal and fluency gave him plenty to do. Under ordinary circumstances Aldous would have thrown himself with all his heart and mind into a contest which involved for him the most stimulating of possibilities, personal and public.
For in the midst of her out-pourings she drew herself together, tried to collect and calm herself, looked at Marcella with an agonised, suspicious eye, and fell silent. "I don't know nothing about it, miss," she stubbornly declared at last, with an inconsequent absurdity which smote Marcella's pity afresh. "How am I to know? There was seven o' them Oxford fellows at Tudley End that I know.
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