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Updated: September 1, 2025
'I never asked you, Lady Ogram! It was a toss up whether she would turn me out of the house or admire my courage: she is capable of one or the other. Her next question was, where did I live? I told her I lodged with my aunt, Mrs. Shufflebotham; and her face went black. Mrs. Shufflebotham, I have been told, was somehow the cause of a quarrel between my father and Lady Ogram.
But the revelation surprised and rather disgusted him. He wondered why Constance made it thus needlessly, and, as it was, defiantly. "I should be very stupid and conventional," he answered, with his indulgent smile, "if such things affected me one way or another." "I don't mind telling you that, when I first knew about it, I wished Mrs. Shufflebotham and her shop at the bottom of the sea."
Didn't your father let you know of the shocking revelation I made to him the other day?" "He told me nothing at all." Constance reflected. "Probably he thought it too painful. Mrs. Shufflebotham keeps a little shop, and sells cakes and sweetmeats. Does it distress you?" Distress was not the applicable word, for Lashmar had no deep interest in Constance or her belongings.
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