The Sea Lady

Lady's first conversation with Mrs. Bunti

stake. "Your four charming daughte

got through their preliminaries by then

who carried-w

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was n

ral morni

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did," said t

Miss Glendower. He was stopping here for a night or so. I daresay he'll come

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slowly; and then with more animation, "Of cours

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prepos

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said the Sea Lady; and then, "And so he is eng

lady in the pu

rried a

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If he wasn't,

aid the Sea La

h in every way. Adeline's just i

may still be anything-anything. And she is so earnest, so clever herself-always reading. She even reads Blue Books-government Blue Books I mean-dreadful statistical schedulely things. And the condition of the poor and all those things. She knows more about the condition of the poor than any one I've ever met; what they earn and what they eat, and how many

n illustrative but involved anecdote of Mis

" the Sea Lady asked quite c

e anecdote, so that later the Sea Lady re

She thinks not. She was so busy telling her all about everything that I d

from her own discourse was p