CHAPTER 3
PART 27: He Calls, and Counsels, and Considers
CHAPTER III
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And meanwhile Peter Blagden and I had called at Selwoode once or twice in unison and due estate. And Peter considered "Miss Beechinor a damn fine girl, and Miss Hugonin too, only -- "
"Only," I prompted, between puffs, "Miss Hugonin keeps everybody, as my old Mammy used to say, ‘in a perpetual swivet. ' I never understood what the phrase meant, precisely, but I somehow always knew that it was eloquent."