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68 ever hear anything equal to Miss Corbin's language to Mr. Romaine and Sir Archy? Actually rating them! And then the next moment plying them with the most outrageous flattery."

"And yet, Ethel, she seemed to please them," answered Mrs. Chessingham, doubtfully. "But I was a little scandalized, I admit."

"A little scandalized! Now, I do assure you, leaving out of account altogether any personal grievance about these two particular men, I never heard a girl talk so to men in all my life."

Ethel told the truth this time and no mistake.

"Nor did I," said Mrs. Chessingham. "But perhaps she's not a fair type."

"Did n't Sir Archy tell us she was the most typical American that he has yet seen? And does n't Mr. Romaine know all about her family? And really," continued Miss Maywood, getting off her high horse, and looking genuinely puzzled, "I scarcely know whether it would be right for me to make a companion of such a girl; you know her home is in the same county as Mr. Romaine's place, quite