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Updated: July 18, 2025

"Don't chaff me." "Don't be so funereal, then." Under the Honourable's matter of fact air Sir Duke's face began to clear. "Tell me, do you think she still cares for me?" "Well, I don't know. She's rich now got the grandmother's stocking. Then there's Pedley, of the Scots Guards; he has been doing loyal service for a couple of years. What does the letter say?"

Gilbert Parker - Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Volume 3.