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 "So are you, if you come to that!" cried Acton, laughing. "Why shouldn't I be honest?"

The old man opened the North American again, and read a few lines. "If we have ever had any virtue amongst us, we had better keep hold of it now," he said. He was not quoting.

"We have a Baroness among us," said Acton. "That's what we must keep hold of!" He was too impatient to see Madame Münster again to wonder what Mr. Wentworth was talking about. Nevertheless, after he had passed out of the house and traversed the garden and the little piece of road that separated him from Eugenia's provisional residence, he stopped a moment.