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"Do you go out much in society?"
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"Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for it."
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"That is unusual in a young girl."
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"She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She is four-and-twenty."
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"This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to her also."
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"Terrible! She is even more affected than I."
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"You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?"
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"How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet in his hands."
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"I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of the coronet at all injured?"
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"Yes, it was twisted."
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"Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to straighten it?"
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"God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me.
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