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"And if I were to accept it?"
"I would swear that you were the best, the dearest, and the sweetest
of women."
"I would rather have your good opinion than your bad, certainly,"
said Lady Alexandrina. And then it was understood by both of them
that that affair was settled. Whenever she was called on in future to
speak of Lily, she always called her, "that poor Miss Dale;" but she
never again spoke a word of reproach to her future lord about that
little adventure. "I shall tell mamma, to-night," she said to him, as
she bade him good-night in some sequestered nook to which they had
betaken themselves. Lady Julia's eye was again on them as they came
out from the sequestered nook, but Alexandrina no longer cared for
Lady Julia.
"George, I cannot quite understand about that Mr Palliser. Isn't
he to be a duke, and oughtn't he to be a lord now?" This question
was asked by Mrs George de Courcy of her husband, when they found
themselves together in the seclusion of the nuptial chamber.
"Yes; he'll be Duke of Omnium when the old fellow dies.


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