All this was final, unchangeable, and she could only exhale her anguish to her daughters and their governess. “Now your father’s rich his first idea is to get rid of us, and have a good time by himself.”
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already justified him in asking her to be kind to Mrs. Closson. “If you hadn’t, how would I have paid for this European trip, I’d like to know, and all the finery for the girls’ London season?”
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I’m sure Conchita’d be glad to get us invitations. She’s awfully good-natured.”
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And that summer she knew he intended to see the Cup Races off Newport, with a vulgar drinking crowd, Elmsworth and Closson among them
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With the approach of the second summer she had thought of hiring a house at Newport; but she simply didn’t dare — and it was then that Miss Testvalley made her bold suggestion.
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Nan supplemented her sister usefully; she could always think of something funny or original to say, whereas there were moments when Virginia had to rely on the length of her eyelashes and the lustre of her lips, and trust to them to plead for her. Certainly the two sisters made an irresistible pair.
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especially the second winter, when Nan emerged from the school-room.
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Virginia, who was a thoughtful girl, turned the matter over in her mind.
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laughed. “Why not? It might be much easier than New York; you ought to try,” that intrepid woman declared.
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At the wedding their beauty had been much remarked