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Besides, she calls me her dear daughter already." "And would adopt you, doubtless, if the cub were got out of the way. Yes, it can be done, I believe, and you can do it, Phillipa, if you please. Only persuade the old lady to make you the heiress of the Purlings, and there will be an end to your troubles and mine." Soon after this conversation Miss Fanshawe returned to Purlington.
"I did not catch it clearly. Besides, I had never heard of you. None of us have. Your mother did not choose to recognise the relationship." "She called you a tide-waiter," said his wife indignantly. "At least I'm not a white-tied waiter," cried Mr. Driver, with a laugh, in which all joined. Then in low voice Dolly said "I met Mr. Purling at Purlington."
I find she has thought out several of the complex problems of our modern high-pressure life; and really she gave me very valuable ideas upon my favourite theory of 'lady-helps, to which I am devoting now so much of my spare time. "Miss Fanshawe has promised to pay me a long visit at Purlington some day soon a real act of kindness which I fully appreciate.
There was no escape from Purlington, so long as you were within a dozen miles of it. Wherever you went and wherever you looked, down from points of vantage or up from quiet dells, this great white caravanserai, with its glittering plate-glass panes and staring stucco, forced itself upon you with the unblushing effrontery of a brazen beauty, with painted face and bedizened in flaunting attire.
"You certainly made an impression upon her, Phillipa," said Lady Calverly afterwards. "She is a vain and rather silly old woman," Miss Fanshawe replied. Language that might have opened Mrs. Purling's eyes. "But I am very glad you became such good friends. Purlington is a very desirable place." Here, then, was a faint clue to the mystery of Mrs. Purling's tardy reception at Compton Revel.
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