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To have no work to do was strange, but not half so strange as having

glided into a corner where she had no one to think for, nothing to plan

and contrive, no cares of others to load herself with Strange as that

was, it was far stranger yet to find a space between herself and her

father, where others occupied the care of him, and

where she was never expected to be At first, this was so much more

unlike her old experience than even the n herself to it, and had tried to retain her

old place about him

But he had spoken to her alone, and had said that

people--ha--people in an exalted position, my dear, must scrupulously

exact respect frohter,

Miss A branch of the Dorrits of

Dorsetshire, to be known to--hu the

functions of--ha hum--a valet, would be incompatible with that respect

Therefore, my dear, he--ha--he laid his parental injunctions upon

her, to remember that she was a lady, who had now to conduct herself

with--hum--a proper pride, and to preserve the rank of a lady;

and consequently he requested her to abstain froatory remarks She had obeyed without

a ht about that she now sat in her corner

of the luxurious carriage with her little patient hands folded before

her, quite displaced even froround