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To France’s intense disgust Parliament met on August 12, that consecrated1 date when grouse2 are first hunted from their lairs3. There was nothing for it, however, but to go up to London with the triumphant4 duke and sit on a bench through at least one hot hour each day. The rest of his hours he spent at his club, to avoid meeting his patriotic5 relative, and Julia, for the first time, found herself possessed6 of a certain measure of liberty. To be sure, she was several times caged in the House of Commons, and once slept above the peers, but for the most part she was left to herself, the duke almost forgetting her in the joy of his occasional chats in the lobby with Lord Salisbury, and the excitements provided by Mr. Chamberlain. He had neither hope nor wish for the onerous7 duties of a cabinet minister, but for many years politics had formed the only excitement of his rather colorless life; whether his party were in or out, he always managed to be of some slight use to it in the upper House. He was laughed at sometimes by the giants of his party, but on the whole regarded as a safe reliable man, and received doles8 of flattery to keep his enthusiasm alive.
Everybody was out of town except Ishbel, who was casting nets for the rich tourists, and Julia sat for hours in the gay little shop on the second floor of an old building in Bond Street, watching her friend with wide admiring eyes, and even envying her a little. This, however, she suppressed. She was to be a duchess, and that was the end of it. She would fill her high destiny to the best of her ability, but she wished that meanwhile she could earn a little money, or some unknown relative would leave her a legacy9. France was still “economizing” and gave her no allowance; she
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consecrated
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patriotic
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accomplished
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mansion
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fatigue
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turnip
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radical
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iniquity
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stationary
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awaken
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sojourn
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precisely
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alpine
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panes
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peculiar
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monarchical
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resentment
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pointed
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replenishment
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ornament
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flirtation
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frankly
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animated
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babble
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imbibed
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exclamation
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