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Diana of the Crossways

CHAPTER VI
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He deferred to her craze for The Crossways, and they lived in a larger London house, 'up to their position,' which means ever a trifle beyond it, and gave choice dinner-parties to the most eminent.

His jealousy slumbered.
Having ideas of a seat in Parliament at this period, and preferment superior to the post he held, Mr.Warwick deemed it sagacious to court the potent patron Lord Dannisburgh could be; and his wife had his interests at heart, the fork-tongued world said.

The cry revived.
Stories of Lord D.and Mrs.W.whipped the hot pursuit.

The moral repute of the great Whig lord and the beauty of the lady composed inflammable material.
'Are you altogether cautious ?' Lady Dunstane wrote to Diana; and her friend sent a copious reply: 'You have the fullest right to ask your Tony anything, and I will answer as at the Judgement bar.

You allude to Lord Dannisburgh.


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