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"I shall remain standing." "Let me make you acquainted with my husband," pursued the lady, "he's Lord Simon de Lacey, second son of the Duke of Aberfalden. Please excuse him smokin'!" The effect of these simple words on Mrs. Handsomebody was startling.
Then Angel said: "There's a window in the Cathedral in memory of a son of some Duke of Aberfalden. He died about a hundred years ago." "The very same family," replied our governess, "and, I am sure, from now on, my dear boy, you will regard the window with a new reverence."
It was dedicated, so saith the bronze tablet beneath, to the memory of Cosmo John, fifth son of an Earl of Aberfalden. He had died at the age of fifteen, not a tender age to me, but the age toward which I was eagerly straining, the vigourous, untrammelled age of the big boy.
She brandished the battledore as though to ward off the approaching Lord Simon, and repeated in a trembling voice: "Lord Simon de Lacey Duke of Aberfalden. Surely there is some mistake." "I'm afraid not," said Lord Simon, shaking her hand. "In me you behold the traditional, impecunious younger son, and "
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