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That should be quite otherwise at the close," and rising, she went to the piano and sat down beside her sister. They played a long time together, and it was Rose who was tired first `for a wonder. "Graeme, why did you not tell Harry the true reason that you did not wish to go to Mrs Roxbury's?" said Rose, when they went up-stairs together. "The true reason?" repeated Graeme.
"Well, that shows how profound was the impression which your society made on me, for on looking back I uniformly associate you with all the pleasant assemblies of the season. You went with us to Beloeil, did you not?" Graeme shook her head. "Well, no wonder I forget, it is so long ago, now. You were at Mrs Roxbury's great affair, were you not? It happened not long before Mr Elphinstone's death.
"It must be rather a troublesome thing to keep up such a general acquaintance a loss of time to little purpose," and so it would have ended, as far as he was concerned, if Harry had not discovered Mrs Roxbury's note. "I declare Mrs Gridley is right," said he. "We are a rising family. I hope you gave that lady a chance to peep into this note, when she was here to-day. But how is this? Miss Elliott.
But how you should find time to shine on that occasion, and have none to spare for Mrs Roxbury's select affair, is more than I can comprehend." "Don't be snobbish, Harry," said Will. "I think the reasons are obvious," said Arthur. "Yes," said Graeme, "we knew Willie Birnie when we were children. He was at the school with you all.
"We must never let him know that we actually gave that wretch nearly twenty-five hundred dollars, Edith. He would never forgive us. I admit that I was a fool and a ninny, so don't tell me I am. I can see by the way you are looking that you're just crazy to. It's all Roxbury's fault, anyway. Why should he get up and make a speech in London without letting us know? Just see how it has placed us!
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