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"I suppose I must write, and say she may come. Personally, I shall be delighted to have her; but I'm afraid Granby will think a girl in the house rather a bore. Three _is_ such an awkward number in India!"
"And sometimes in other places," added a lady who sat on the fender-stool, blowing a great wood fire, with a preposterously small pair of bellows.