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LADY FITZ-TOOTLE'S reception upon the following Friday evening to meet Lord Sanderson, the great and distinguished traveller, was in every way a most remarkable success.
There was no doubt about it, and even her severest critics, in spite of their annoyance and bewilderment at the very varying social positions of those who had been invited, had to admit that it was so.