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CHAPTER THE SEVENTH Lady Harman learns about Herself 3 4
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It has been said that Fate is a plagiarist1. Lady Harman's Fate at any rate at this juncture2 behaved like a benevolent3 plagiarist who was also a little old-fashioned. This phase of speechless hostility4 was complicated by the fact that two of the children fell ill, or at least seemed for a couple of days to be falling ill. By all the rules of British sentiment, this ought to have brought about a headlong reconciliation5 at the tumbled bedside. It did nothing of the sort; it merely wove fresh perplexities into the tangled6 skein of her thoughts.
On the day after her participation7 in that forbidden lunch Millicent, her eldest8 daughter, was discovered with a temperature of a hundred and one, and then Annette, the third, followed suit with a hundred. This carried Lady Harman post haste to the nursery, where to an unprecedented9 degree she took command. Latterly she had begun to mistrust the physique of her children and to doubt whether the trained efficiency of Mrs. Harblow the nurse wasn't becoming a little blunted at the edges by continual use. And the tremendous quarrel she had afoot made her keenly resolved not to let anything go wrong in the nursery and less disposed than she usually was to leave things to her husband's servants. She interviewed the doctor herself, arranged for the isolation10 of the two flushed and cross little girls, saw to the toys and amusements which she discovered had become a little flattened
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plagiarist
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participation
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flattened
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measles
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gadding
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inhumanly
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distressed
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embittered
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foisted
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gusty
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crumb
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