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and Mrs. Hopkinson walked for some time in silence, and then she suddenly said,

"I don't like those people, Charles; I do not mind their rudeness to me. I suppose I look like a respectable housekeeper, and she thinks I am one, that does not matter; but I do not quite make out what they are. What do you know of them, my dear?"

"He is one of the wealthiest men in the city," said Willis apologetically, for he was rather nettled that his mother-in-law should have been treated cavalierly, "and she is a very fine lady."

"Very fine, my dear, but not a lady, take