A Fair Fraud — page 128: what you’re looking at

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A Fair Fraud 117 lunch, There would hardly be room, I fear.’ ‘Oh! but mzght not the wagonette go instead?’ pleaded Mrs Lane. ‘Then it would hold us all so nicely—all four of us, you and Miss Blake too, as well as the lunch.’ ‘Oh! I should not think of going. I should catch my death of cold. We never do such a thing here, Mrs Lane. I don’t know what my husband would say to it.’ ‘Dearest Mrs Drury, you should not really, really be so behind the times!’ persisted Mrs Lane, playfully. ‘At Lord Darker’s and Sir John Renfer’s and at the Earl of Custin’s the ladies always went out with the lunch. I assure you it's a/ways done now; and the dear earl said to me only the last time we were staying there, ‘‘Mrs Lane, you are to be sure and bring your charming daughter over to lunch,” and that was the time Hetty had that tiresome headache and couldn't go; and why should you and Mr Drury not have things just the same as at other places? I am sure Crook- thorpe is quite as nice as azy nobleman’s place I was ever in—much nicer indeed in a great many ways!’ Good Mrs Drury was not impervious to the flattery, and the names of these aristocratic personages whom Mrs Lane quoted so glibly were not altogether without effect upon her. GOMMGIOO <S (GO) uu