A Fair Fraud — page 122: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER VIII ‘Dissipation does not agree with you, Marion. I never saw anybody looking so tired and washed-out in my life, said Mrs Drury the following morning to her companion. ‘Did you eat anything that disagreed with you last nignt, my dear? That supréme of lobster aux truffes was fearfully rich; I was afraid of it myself. Cook wz// overdo her entrées!’ Marion laughed. ‘I did not touch it, aunt; and I assure you I am perfectly well.’ ‘More than you look, my dear. I shall let you off the leading articles to-day; you can just read me the births and deaths and the latest intelligence, and that will be enough. And I must insist on your lying down for an hour before you dress for dinner to-night. Oh! did I not tell you? Your uncle wishes you to dire with us every evening whilst we have friends staying here.’ ‘Really, aunt?’ and Marion looked very much surprised, for she had so long been relegated to a life of insignificance and re- pression that to be thought of and brought IT! GOMMGIOO <S (GO) uu