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She wants to take a flat in town for two months, to take Boulton and one maid, to hire a cook, and to go generally to the bad." Mrs. Agar's eyes glistened. She liked to hear of other people seeking excitement because she felt more justified in doing so herself. "Well, I think she is very sensible. I am sure you all want a change. I feel I do. It is so depressing here all alone with one's thoughts.
Agar's reluctance was not quite genuine nor was it well enough simulated to deceive Dora. "Well, dear," she said, "if you insist, they said that there had been something between you and Jem long, long ago, of course, before he went out to India." Dora shrugged her shoulders. "They are welcome to say what they like." Mrs. Agar was silent, awaiting a second question.
The nucleus of Earl Grosvenor's collection, was the purchase of Mr. Agar's pictures for L30,000; since which it has been enlarged, till it has at length become one of the finest in England. In the drawing-room at Eaton are, Our Saviour on the Mount of Olives, by Claude Lorraine, which is the largest painting known to have been executed by him; and A Port in the Mediterranean, by Vernet.
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