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In Luck at Last

CHAPTER XII
19/26

"I told you not to ask questions before.

Where should I learn, but in America?
Do you suppose no one can play the piano, except in England?
Look here," she glanced at her cousin.

"Do you, Mr.Arbuthnot, always spend your evenings like this ?" "How like this ?" "Why, going around in a swallow tail to drawing-rooms with the women, like a tame tom-cat.

If you do, you must be a truly good young man.

If you don't, what do you do ?" "Very often I spend my evenings in a drawing-room." "Oh, Lord! Do most young Englishmen carry on in the same proper way ?" "Why not ?" "Don't they go to music-halls, please, and dancing cribs, and such ?" "Perhaps.


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