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No contrary advice having reached Pulwick since Miss O'Donoghue's _letter of invoice_, as Mr. Landale facetiously described it, he drove over to Lancaster on the day appointed to meet the party.
And thus it came to pass that through the irresistible management of Miss O'Donoghue, who put into the promotion of her scheme all the energy belonging to her branch of the family, together with the long habit of authority of the _Tante a heritage_, the daughters of Cecile de Savenaye returned to that first home of theirs, of which they had forgotten even the name.