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He felt like shouting back: ``Yes, she is, and so are the van der Luydens, and so we all are, when it comes to being so much as brushed by the wing-tip of Reality.'' But he saw her long gentle face puckering into tears, and felt ashamed of the useless pain he was inflicting.
``Hang Countess Olenska! Don't be a goose, Janey -- I'm not her keeper.''
``No; but you did ask the Wellands to announce your engagement sooner so that we might all back her up; and if it hadn't been for that cousin Louisa would never have invited her to the dinner for the Duke.''
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``Well -- what harm was there in inviting her? She was the best-looking woman in the room; she made the dinner a little less funereal than the usual van der Luyden banquet.''
``You know cousin Henry asked her to please you: he persuaded cousin Louisa. And now they're so upset that they're going back to Skuytercliff tomorrow. I think, Newland, you'd better come down. You don't seem to understand how mother feels.''
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