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When Jim departed, and relieved the two friends of his presence, Sybil leaned her face in her hands for a while and then burst out with--
"This accounts for the difference in the cousins. Kenneth's father was a gentleman, at any rate. The plebeian mother (for of course she was Mr. Oswald's sister) has given him that strain of vulgarity which comes out in this unpardonable action, which I resent so bitterly."