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'Yes, she went out at seventeen. I believe she is an infinite comfort to her mother. 'Poor Mary! Well, we children lived in the middle of a tragedy, and little suspected it! By the bye, what relation are the Ponsonbys to us? 'Mrs. Ponsonby is my niece. My dear sister, Mary 'Married Mr. Raymond yes, I know!
"I have loved you," he said, "since the first moment that I saw you I gave you tea and muffins; I deserted the Miss Ponsonbys in order to serve you." "And I too!" she answered, laughing. "I could not eat the muffin for love of you, and I was jealous of the Miss Ponsonbys!" "Why did you turn me out the other day?"
Rose, with a great weight off her mind went down the passage, and met Eeny running upstairs. "I say, Rose," exclaimed her sister, "don't you want to go to a ball? Well, there are invitations for the Misses Danton in the parlour." "A ball, Eeny? Where?" "At the Ponsonbys', next Thursday night. Sir Ronald, Doctor Frank, papa, and Mr. Stanford are all invited."
Reginald, take her away." Mr. Stanford, with the faintest shadow of a knowing smile on his face, took Kate's arm and led her down stairs. "The brown eyes and serene face of your demure housekeeper have stronger charms for my papa-in-law than anything within the four walls of the Ponsonbys. What would Kate say, I wonder, if I told her?"
How could he be so rude to the light and leading of Fallacy Street? It could only have been through ignorance; it could only have been because he really did not know how truly great the Miss Ponsonbys were. But then, to spend all his time with the Bethels, strange, odd people, with the queerest manners and an uncertain history, whom Fallacy Street had decided to cut!
Clare spoke to him and he turned round. "I'm afraid you have made the Miss Ponsonbys enemies for life," she said; "you never spoke to them once. I warned you that they were the most important people in the place." "Oh! the Miss Ponsonbys!" said Harry carelessly, and Robin stood amazed.
Stanford drove Kate over in a light cutter. The Ponsonbys, who were a very uplifted sort of people, had not invited Grace; and Captain Danton, at the last moment, announced his intention of staying at home also.
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