His Grace — page 110: what you’re looking at

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104 HIS GRACE. and no doubt he has dissuaded you from keeping it That is all very well, only, Hurstbourne, you know, good fellow though he is, is not precisely one whose advice it would always be safe. to follow blindly.” At this Nora began to laugh. ‘“ Oh,” said she, “the Duke is a goose and you are wise; nobody knows that better than he does. All the same, it does occasion- ally come to pres that wisdom proceeds out of the mouth of fools.” “Ts it his wisdom or his folly that leads you to dis- cuss subjects with him upon which you decline to enter with your brother?” I asked sternly. I looked at her, hoping against hope that she would not blush, but she did blush ; so I picked up the even- ing paper again, with a heavy heart, and read out scraps of fashionable intelligence which were probably as unmeaning to her as they were to me. She had virtually told me all that there was to tell; I could not expect, or even wish, that she should be more explicit Gomichboo CSG