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Updated: May 27, 2025
In view of the fact that Alix's next season must be provided for, it was most awkward. A girl could not be presented and properly launched in the world, in a way which would give her a proper chance, without expenditure. To the Claraways expenditure meant credit, and there were blots as of tears on the letters in which Lady Claraway reiterated that the tradespeople were behaving horribly.
Won't you sit down, dear Miss Fox-Seton?" "We must both go to bed and sleep. You must not get tired." But she sat down for a few minutes, because she saw the girl's eyes asking her to do it. The afternoon post had brought a more than usually depressing letter from Curzon Street. Lady Claraway was at her motherly wits' ends, and was really quite touching in her distraction.
"If we were not in Debrett and Burke, one might be reserved about such matters," poor Lady Claraway wrote; "but what is one to do when all the world can buy one's daughters' ages at the book-sellers'?" Miss Fox-Seton had seen Lady Agatha's portrait at the Academy and the way in which people had crowded about it.
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