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"Do any of you happen to know when Arthur is going to be married?"
The question was Lady Millicent's, and she asked it of her three younger children one day towards the end of May, when Arthur was absent for a few days in London, and the family dinner -- not a very lively one -- had been just concluded. The servants -- two of them in plush and powder, with their chief in all the dignity of a white tie and glittering studs -- had left the room, and milady, looking as usual fat, fair, and comfortable in her dark dress, a little _passée de mode_, ensconced her double chin within the palm of her puffy white hand, and quietly awaited a response.