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"Of course I mean, who was she?" "I believe that her name was Pellissier," Ennison answered. "Pellissier," she repeated thoughtfully. "There were some Hampshire Pellissiers." "She is one of them," Ennison said. "Dear me! I wonder where Sir John picked her up." "In Paris, I think," Ennison answered. "Only married a few months ago and lived out at Hampstead." "Heavens!" the lady exclaimed.
Jove, he didn't take to it kindly, I can tell you. Stood on his dignity and shut us up in great style. It seems that he was a sort of family friend of the Pellissiers, and it was the artist sister whom he was with. The joke of it is that he's married to her now, and cuts me dead." "I suppose," Ennison said, "the likeness between the sisters must be rather exceptional?"
The Pellissiers had been an old family in Hampshire, while his grandfather had driven a van. As in all things, so his thoughts came to him deliberately.
I can assure you, I wouldn't be single again for worlds. One gets a lot more fun married." "Our cases are scarcely similar," Anna remarked. "Why not?" Lady Lescelles answered. "You are one of the Hampshire Pellissiers, I know, and your family are quite as good as ours. As for money, Nigel has tons of it."
Meddoes turned round from the table on which he was practising shots and shrugged his shoulders. "Not much," he answered, "and yet about all there is to be known, I fancy. There were two sisters, you know. Old Jersey and Hampshire family, the Pellissiers, and a capital stock, too, I believe." "Any one could see that the girls were ladies," Ennison murmured.
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