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There was a little laughing at this; but Gillian was saying in her own mind that it was a fine thing to be one's own Rodolf of Hapsburg, and in that light she held Captain White, who, in her present state of mind, she held to have been a superior being to all the Somervilles -perhaps to all the Devereuxes who ever existed.
I'm sure, when I think of the last generation of Devereuxes, I wonder so many of us have been tough enough to weather the dangerous age; and there had been an alarm or two about Rotherwood himself. Well, he was very good, half from obedience, half from being convinced that it would be a selfish thing, and especially from being wholly convinced that Phyl's feelings were not stirred.
But there are such things as hereditary qualities, and thus testimony to the existence of a distinguished forefather is worth having. 'Lily's dear old Sir Maurice de Mohun to wit, said Miss Adeline. 'You know she used to tease Florence by saying the Barons of Beechcroft had a better pedigree than the Devereuxes. 'I'd rather belong to the man who made himself, said Gillian. 'Well done, Gill!
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