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Updated: July 6, 2025

"And that, I suppose, appeased her?" "Not at all. She turned up her nose at everything, by way of punishing me. You see, she had on a new-Worth the third since Christmas. My poor little trousseau rags had no chance." "H'm!" said George, meditatively. "I wonder how my mamma is going to manage when we are married," he added, after a pause. Letty made no reply.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Sir George Tressady — Volume I