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Updated: May 2, 2025
Her voice became half-absent-minded, ruminative, as though she were thinking aloud. "They caught me young, too," she murmured. "Oh, that was a long time ago. Not measured in years, measured in time. There's a difference. "A mission-school got hold of me. Good women, not brainless velvet pets from the younger set, looking for a new sensation. Good women, sincere women that wanted to help.
Fox-Moore, talking to Vida about the Foreign Office reception, to which they had all gone on after the Tunbridges' dinner, kept watching with a kind of half-absent-minded scorn his wife's fussily punctilious pains to prepare the brew 'his way. When all was ready and the tea steaming on its way to him in the hands of its harassed maker, he curtly declined it, got up, and left the room.
When I said to her, "You made an astoundingly good speech to-night. The best I've heard even you make," she looked at me with a sort of half-absent-minded, half-wondering expression, without a glimmer of personal vanity.
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