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`And to remove her from that dreadful house.'

  `That also.'

  `And to be civil to my poor brother.'

  `I'll try to be.'

  `And of course to let me set up a faro-bank of my own!' said Miss Grantham, in a small, provocative voice.

  `If I ever find you playing anything but commerce or silver loo, I'll make you sorry you were ever born!’ said Mr Ravenscar, kissing her hand. `Jade!’

  Miss Grantham heaved a sigh of satisfaction, and abandoned any further attempt to bring him to a sense of his own folly.

 

 

 


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