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1One may as well begin with Helen’s letters to her sister.2Margaret glanced at her sister’s note and pushed it over the3Most complacently did Mrs. Munt rehearse her mission. Her nieces were4Helen and her aunt returned to Wickham Place in a state of collapse,5It will be generally admitted that Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is the6We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only7“Oh, Margaret,” cried her aunt next morning, “such a most unfortunate8The friendship between Margaret and Mrs. Wilcox, which was to develop9Mrs. Wilcox cannot be accused of giving Margaret much information about10Several days passed.11The funeral was over. The carriages rolled away through the soft mud,12Charles need not have been anxious. Miss Schlegel had never heard of13Over two years passed, and the Schlegel household continued to lead its14The mystery, like so many mysteries, was explained. Next day, just as15The sisters went out to dinner full of their adventure, and when they16Leonard accepted the invitation to tea next Saturday. But he was right;17The Age of Property holds bitter moments even for a proprietor. When a18As they were seated at Aunt Juley’s breakfast-table at The Bays,19If one wanted to show a foreigner England, perhaps the wisest course20Margaret had often wondered at the disturbance that takes place in the21Charles had just been scolding his Dolly. She deserved the scolding,22Margaret greeted her lord with peculiar tenderness on the morrow.23Margaret had no intention of letting things slide, and the evening24“It gave her quite a turn,” said Mr. Wilcox, when retailing the25Evie heard of her father’s engagement when she was in for a tennis26Next morning a fine mist covered the peninsula. The weather promised27Helen began to wonder why she had spent a matter of eight pounds in28For many hours Margaret did nothing; then she controlled herself, and29“Henry dear—” was her greeting.30Tibby was now approaching his last year at Oxford. He had moved out of31Houses have their own ways of dying, falling as variously as the32She was looking at plans one day in the following spring—they had33The day of her visit was exquisite, and the last of unclouded happiness34It was not unexpected entirely. Aunt Juley’s health had been bad all35One speaks of the moods of spring, but the days that are her true36“Margaret, you look upset!” said Henry. Mansbridge had followed. Crane37Margaret bolted the door on the inside. Then she would have kissed her38The tragedy began quietly enough, and like many another talk, by the39Charles and Tibby met at Ducie Street, where the latter was staying.40Leonard—he would figure at length in a newspaper report, but that41Far different was Leonard’s development. The months after Oniton,42When Charles left Ducie Street he had caught the first train home, but43Out of the turmoil and horror that had begun with Aunt Juley’s illness44Tom’s father was cutting the big meadow. He passed again and again amid
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