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she could have seen her cousin " compromised "
she would have derived an exquisite satisfaction
and entertainment from the sight. She would
also have felt that Lady Hilda would have
become thereby more natural, and more com¬
fortable company.
" Dear me, she might have done anything she
had Uked aU these years," thought Madame
MUa; "nobody would have knovra anything—
and nothing would hurt her if it were known,
whUst she has all that money."
For Madame MUa herself, perched on one of
the very topmost rungs of the ladder of the
world's greatness, and able therefore to take a
bfrd's-eye view therefrom of everything, was very
shrewd in her way, and knew that society never
was known yet to quarrel with the owner of fifty
thousand a-year.
So she carried her airy Uttle person, laden
this night with gold embroideries on dull
Venetian red, untU she looked like a Uttle figure
made in Lac, over to the icart^ table when the
ecart^ was finished, and arranged a morning
at Palestrina for the day after to-morrow. He
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