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Still bothered by your two young men? Hullo! what's wrong?" "Read them!" cried Agatha, with a gesture towards the table. "Eh? Head what? Oh, I see." He sat down at the table and put on his glasses. Agatha turned her face towards the wall; for her also everything was over. For a time no sound was audible save an occasional crackle of the note-paper in Lord Thrapston's shaking fingers.
Nettie was the daughter of Lord Thrapston's housekeeper, and the two girls had been intimate in youth, much as Charlie Merceron and Willie Prime had been at the Court; and when Nettie, scorning servitude, set up in life for herself, Agatha gave her her custom and did not withdraw her friendship.
"Lord Thrapston's granddaughter?" "Yes." "Horrid old man, isn't he?" "I know him very slightly." "And the man who's he?" "Mr. Calder Wentworth." "To be sure. Why, they're engaged, aren't they? I saw it in the paper." "I'm sure I don't know," said Mr. Taylor, in a voice more troubled than the matter seemed to require. "I saw it in the paper too."
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