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Having communicated this sentiment in a tone which did not conduce to the lighter graces of conversation, Miss Neuchamp resumed her reading. Silence, the ominous oppressive silence of those who do not wish to speak, reigned unbroken for a while.
At length, lifting her head as if the thought had suddenly struck her, she said, ‘I cannot think why you did not buy a station nearer to town, where you might have lived in a comparatively civilised way.'