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CHAPTER VIII.
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“If you get into a bad set, I tell you frankly1 I shall never help you out of it. A bad set is a bog2; a hopeless bog; you flounder on in it till you sink. Can’t you understand? If you are going to be taken up by this kind of people, don’t ask me to do any more for you. That’s all. I don’t want to be unkind, but it must be one thing or another. I cannot come here if I am likely to meet persons whom I won’t know. Anybody would say the same.”
She spoke3 with severity, as to a chidden child, as she lighted a cigarette and put it between her roseleaf lips. She was in the boudoir of Harrenden House, and Margaret Massarene listened in humble5 and dejected silence to the rebuke6. The bone of contention7 was represented by two visiting cards, on which were printed respectively Lady Mary Altringham and Lady Linlithgow: the bearers of those names had just been turned away from the gate below by order of the fair consor, and the mistress of Harrenden House, being a primitive8 person, to whom a want of hospitality appeared a crime, was swallowing her tears under difficulty.
“But surely these ladies are high and all that, ma’am?” she pleaded piteously in her ignorance.
“They were born if you mean that,” replied Mouse with great impatience9. “Lady Mary was a Fitz-Frederick and the Linlithgow was a Knotts-Buller. But they are nowhere. They have put themselves out of court. No one worth thinking of knows them. They can do you no good, and they can do you a great deal of harm.”
Mrs. Massarene puckered10 up in her fingers the fine cambric of her handkerchief.
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