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"And just because I was thrice as old, / And our paths in the world diverged so wide, / Each was nought to each, must I be told? / We were fellow-mortals, nought beside? " / R. BROWNING.
"I CERTAINLY am surprised! I could not have expected such a want of correct feeling! " Miss Devereux spoke in tremulous accents, moving her hands nervously with a washing gesture, one over the other.