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THE SEMI-DETACHED HOUSE.

CHAPTER VII.

"Well, those are three as nice ladies as ever I wish to see," said Mrs. Hopkinson, when her guests had departed, "and as for that Lady Chester, I'm quite in love with her. She thinks so much of your father, and spoke in such a way of him. I wish John had heard her!"

"Miss Grenville was very nice, too, mamma, and took great notice of dear little Charlie, and played at cat's cradle with him," said Rose.

"I did not think quite so much of her as of the old lady," said Janet. "Did you make out what her name was, mamma?"

"Lady Sarah Mortimer, my dear, she is aunt to the two sisters who are twins, and