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"I have been very wicked!" she said, with such a quaint horror of herself that her husband laughed. "Now I look back upon it all, I think I have behaved so very badly! because I ought never to have doubted you, my boy no not for all the Lady Winsleighs in the world. And poor Mr. Neville! he must be so unhappy! But it was that letter that letter in your own writing, Philip!"
Moreover, all the London guests who were visiting Thelma came in for a share of the county magnates' servile admiration. They found the Winsleighs "so distingue" Master Ernest instantly became "that dear boy!" Beau Lovelace was "so dreadfully clever, you know!" and Pierre Duprez "quite too delightful!"
His humor was not improved when a telegram arrived before breakfast, summoning him in haste to a dull town in one of the Midland counties, on pressing business connected with his candidature for Parliament. "What a bore!" he exclaimed, showing the missive to his wife. "I must go, and I shan't be able to get back tonight. You'll be all alone, Thelma. I wish you'd go to the Winsleighs!"
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