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"Why did not you join with your cousin in inviting Clara Montagu to go with us to London? " said the Duke to Rosabella, as their balloon proceeded homewards.
"I thought the humility of my situation rendered it improper," returned Rosabella, with an affected air of modesty. "It surely would be wrong for a poor dependant like myself, to take the liberty of inviting guests to the house of her patron."