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He had pictured to himself a pied-a-terre in Paris which it might be agreeable for him to secure, for existence in Normandy might occasionally prove canuyeux. These things were what he meant when he talked of a haven for his declining years; and against the daughter who, for some caprice of her own, could hinder his possession of these things, he had no feeling but anger.
'What a nice old place! said Ida, looking down at the garden. 'How quiet, how grave, how learned-looking! I don't wonder you like this pied-a-terre in London, as a change from your grand old Abbey. Brian gave a little nervous cough, as if something were choking him. He came to the window, and put his arm round his wife's waist.
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