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"Miss Thoroughbung would be a little out of place at Buston Hall. Now, as to Miss Puffle " "Miss Puffle is a lady, or was." "No doubt, sir. The Puffles is not quite equal to the Prospers, as I can hear. But the Puffles is ladies and gentlemen. The servants below all give it up to them that they're real gentlefolk. But " "Well?" "She demeaned herself terribly with young Tazlehurst.
Why should not a gentleman marry if he wants to leave his estate to his own son?" "Of course he must marry before he can do that." "Where was I to get a young lady just outside of my own class? There was Miss Puffle. I did think of her. But just at the moment she went off with young Tazlehurst. That was another misfortune.
Champagne and ponies were, as faults, less deleterious. Miss Puffle gone off with young Tazlehurst, a lady of fifty, with a young man of twenty-five! and she the reputed heiress of Snickham Manor! It was a comfort to him as he remembered that Snickham Manor had been bought no longer ago than by the father of the present owner. The Prospers been at Buston ever since the time of George the First.
He had been thinking that moment of Miss Puffle, of how she would be superior to Miss Thoroughbung in many ways, so that he sat up in his bed, holding the untasted tea in his hand. "She's gone off with young Farmer Tazlehurst." "Miss Puffle gone off, and with her father's tenant's son!" "Yes indeed, sir. She and her father have been quarrelling for the last ten years, and now she's off.
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