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Volume One--Chapter Seven. Auntie Hamps.
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Mrs Hamps had splendidly arrived. The atmosphere of the sitting-room1 was changed. Maggie, smiling, wore her second-best black silk apron2. Clara, smiling and laughing, wore a clean long white pinafore. Mrs Nixon, with her dreamy eyes less vacant than usual, greeted Mrs Hamps effusively3, and effusively gave humble4 thanks for kind inquiries5 after her health. A stranger might have thought that these women were strongly attached to one another by ties of affection and respect. Edwin never understood how his sisters, especially Maggie, could practise such vast and eternal hypocrisy6 with his aunt. As for him, his aunt acted on him now, as generally, like a tonic7. Some effluence from her quickened him. He put away the worry in connection with his father, and gave himself up to the physical pleasures of tea.
Aunt Clara was a handsome woman. She had been called—but not by men whose manners and code she would have approved—‘a damned fine woman.’ Her age was about forty, which at that period, in a woman’s habit of mind, was the equivalent of about fifty to-day. Her latest photograph was considered to be very successful. It showed her standing8 behind a velvet9 chair and leaning her large but still shapely bust10 slightly over the chair. Her forearms, ruffled11 and braceleted, lay along the fringed back of the chair, and from one
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