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Bringing us away from a quiet town where we were known and respected--what an ill-considered thing it was! O the content of those days! We had society there, people in our own position, who did not expect more of us than we expected of them.

Here, where there is so much, there is nothing! He said London society was so bright and brilliant that it would be like a new world.

It may be to those who are in it; but what is that to us two lonely women; we only see it flashing past!.

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