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Disgrace! It seemed almost impossible to identify such a word with Borne Abbey. Lady Edna looked around her and saw nothing on every side except the outward and visible greatness of the Cranwallises.
And yet she had heard the word from her father's own lips, and there was nothing either in his manner to suggest that he was suffering from a delusion. And he had never spoken to his daughter like this before. His manner had been harsh and rude, and there was something furtive in the way he spoke, as if he were a party to a mean and underhand thing of which he was ashamed.