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ARTHUR was received by his friend and Mrs. Brading most kindly and courteously, without any tinge of either patronage or condescension, which some words of his elder sister had almost led him to expect.
He found that Mr. Brading, if he was not to be reckoned among the county families, was a gentleman in his own home as well as at business, and Mrs. Brading was all that a lady should be in the reception of her guests and the ordering of her household. He found his friend's two sisters were much like his own: well-mannered, quietly-dressed girls, who received him as their brother's friend in a perfectly natural manner, so that he speedily felt at ease and at home among them.