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The duke was there, of course, and I really wonder Lady Hartletop should not be more discreet in her own drawing-room when all the world is there. It is clear to me that Lord Dumbello admires Griselda much more than I could wish.
The Hartletop people were not in her line. They belonged altogether to another set, being connected, as we have heard before, with the Omnium interest "those horrid Gatherum people," as Lady Lufton would say to her, raising her hands and eyebrows, and shaking her head.
Griselda, Marchioness of Hartletop, was more than ever a daughter of the archdeacon, even though he might never see her. Nothing could rob him of the honour of such a progeny, nothing, even though there had been actual estrangement between them. But it was not so with Mrs Grantly. Griselda had done very well, and Mrs Grantly had rejoiced; but she had lost her child.
Proudie, of Barchester; he would prefer the priestess whom I see coming round the corner of the staircase, with a very famous young novice at her elbow." "From all that I can hear, you will have to reckon Miss Grantly among the sinners," said Mrs. Harold Smith seeing that Lady Lufton with her young friend was approaching "unless, indeed, you can make a saint of Lady Hartletop."
"I will go up to her at once, and ask her to waltz," Burgo said to himself, as soon as the last figure of the quadrille was in action. "Why should I not ask her as well as any other woman?" Then the music ceased, and after a minute's interval Lord Hartletop took away his partner on his arm into another room. Burgo, who had been standing near the door, followed them at once.
Palliser was sitting perfectly silent between Lady Hartletop and the Duke's daughter, and he gave a little spring in his chair as this sudden address was made to him. "Your House of Commons theories, I mean, Mr. Palliser. Mr. Finn is saying that it is very well to have far advanced ideas, it does not matter how far advanced, because one is never called upon to act upon them practically."
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