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Miss Bridget was in London, but was out; Peter's informant mentioned with earnest vagueness that he thought she had gone somewhere to take a lesson. On Peter's asking what sort of lesson he meant he replied: "Oh I think a the a-sculpture, you know, sir."
Henry James - The Tragic Muse

Peter knew, but Biddy's lesson in "a-sculpture" it sounded on the butler's lips like a fashionable new art struck him a little as a mockery of the helpful spirit in which he had come to look her up. The man had an air of participating respectfully in his disappointment and, to make up for it, added that he might perhaps find Mr. Dormer at his other address.
Henry James - The Tragic Muse
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