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Uncle Max

CHAPTER XIII
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I would get Etta to dismiss them if they did.

Is it not a shame that people should not have a voice in the matter of their name,--that helpless infants should be abandoned to the tender mercies of some old fogey of a sponsor?
Miss Garston, if I were ever to hear you address me by that name it would be the death-warrant to our friendship.' 'Let me know who you really are first, and then I will promise not to offend your peculiar prejudice.' 'Dear me!' she answered pettishly, 'you talk just like Giles.

He often laughs at me and makes himself very unpleasant.

But then, as I often tell him, philanthropists are not pleasant people with whom to live; a man with a hobby is always odious.

Well, Miss Garston, if you will be so prying, my name is Elizabeth Grant Hamilton; only from a baby I have been called Lady Betty.' 'I shall remember,' I replied quietly, for really the little thing seemed quite ruffled.


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