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" must know, Mr. Grey, that this is my favourite walk, and I therefore expect that it will be yours."

"It cannot indeed fail to be such, the favourite as it alike is, of nature, and Mrs. Felix Lorraine."

"On my word, a very pretty sentence!—and who taught you, young gentleman, to bandy words so fairly?"

"I never can open my mouth, except in the presence of a woman," bolted out Vivian, with the most impudent mendacity, and he looked interesting and innocent.