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Fanny set her lips, and her eyes looked half triumphantly at her sister

'A son of two or three-and-twenty He is a little gay, a thing Society

is accusto men, and he is very impressible Perhaps he

inherits that misfortune I am very impressible s are touched in aelse, as coldly as a wo the sisters except at odd ti some abstraction of Society; for whose behoof, too, she

occasionally arranged her dress, or the coure upon

the ottoman 'So he is very impressible Not a misfortune in our natural state I dare

say, but we are not in a natural state Much to be lamented, no doubt,

particularly by myself, who am a child of nature if I could but show it;

but so it is Society suppresses us and dominates us--Bird, be quiet!'

The parrot had broken into a violent fit of laughter, after twisting

divers bars of his cage with his crooked bill, and licking theue

'It is quite unnecessary to say to a person of your good sense, wide

range of experience, and cultivated feeling,' said Mrs Merdle frolass to refresh her

e so e, I mean the people on it of the female sex Therefore, when I

heard that my son was supposed to be fascinated by a dancer, I knehat

that usuallya dancer at the

Opera, where youngin Society are usually fascinated'

She passed her white hands over one another, observant of the sisters