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The queen was not expected back from the Continent for another month; there had scarcely been for all the summer even the semblance of a court fit to teach a maiden lofty carriage and cold dignity; so that Lord de Wichehalse thought Sir Maunder Meddleby an oaf for sending him to London.
De Wichehalse had vowed that his only child although so clever for her age, and prompt of mind and body should not enter into marriage until she was in her eighteenth year. Otherwise, it would, no doubt, have all been settled long ago; for Aubyn Auberley sometimes had been in the greatest hurry.
De Wichehalse could never be quite sure, though his race had been long in this country, whether he or they could speak born English as it ought to be. "Perhaps you will find," he said at last, with grief as well as courtesy, "many who speak one language Striving to silence one another." "He fights best who fights the longest You will come with us, my lord?"
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