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Tenterhooks

CHAPTER XVI
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Well, let's hope he'll meet some charming girl and bring her back as his bride.

Where is he now, do you know, Mrs Ottley ?' 'In Armenia, I fancy,' said Edith.
'Oh, well, we don't want him to bring home an Armenian, do we?
What colour are they?
Blue, or brown, or what?
I hope no-one will tell Lady Hartland that is my husband.

She'll expect to see Winthrop tonight; she never met him, you know; but he really ought to be introduced to her.

I think I shall tell him to go and undress, when they've had a little dancing and she's been down to supper.' Lady Hartland was the yellow lady in red, who thought she was flirting with a fascinating Slav.
'She's a sort of celebrity,' continued Mrs Mitchell.

'She was an American once, and she married Sir Charles Hartland for her money.


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