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her sister; she wondered whence she had suddenly derived these strange notions. Mr. Wentworth also observed his younger daughter.
"I don't know what her manner of life may have been," he said; "but she certainly never can have enjoyed a more refined and salubrious home."
Gertrude stood there looking at them all. "She is the wife of a Prince," she said.
"We are all princes here," said Mr. Wentworth; "and I don't know of any palace in this neighbourhood that is to let."
"Cousin William," Robert Acton interposed, "do you want to do something handsome? Make them a present, for three months, of the little house over the way."