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Miss Bretherton

CHAPTER VI
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She is shaking off trick after trick; your brother-in-law is merciless to them whenever they appear, and she is for ever working with a view to his approval, and also, I think, from two or three things she has said, with a memory of that distant standard of criticism which she believes to be embodied in you! 'M.

de Chateauvieux has devoted himself to her; it is a pretty sight to see them together.

Your sister and she, too, are inseparable, and Madame de Chateauvieux's quiet, equable refinement makes a good contrast to Miss Bretherton's mobility.

She will never lose the imprint of her friendship with these two people; it was a happy thought which led you to bring them together.
'Well, we went to Torcello, and I watched for an opportunity of getting her alone.

At last Madame de Chateauvieux gave me one; she carried off her husband, Ruskin in hand, to study the mosaics, and Miss Bretherton and I were left sitting under the outer wall of San Fosca till they should come back.


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