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The Mother’s Recompense, Volume I.

CHAPTER III
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"You forget that I too have only just been released, and that this is only my first glimpse of the world." "You do me injustice, Miss Hamilton.

I am too delightfully and refreshingly reminded of that truth to forget it for one instant.

You may have only just made your _debut_, but you have not been schooled and scolded, and frightened into propriety as that unfortunate girl has.

If she has smiled once too naturally, spoken one word too much, made one step wrong, or said sir, my lord, your lordship, once too often, she will have such a lecture to-morrow, she will never wish to go to a ball again." "Poor girl!" said Caroline, in a tone of genuine pity, which caused a smile from her partner.
"She is not worthy of your pity, Miss Hamilton; she is hardened to it all.

What a set we are dancing with, men and women, all heartless alike; but I want to know what magic wand has touched St.Eval.I do believe it must be your eyes, Miss Hamilton.


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