"Thank you," says Geoffrey, a little dryly, accepting her words as they are said, not as he feels they are meant.
Rise of Pyramids, "Have they taught you to hate me already?" he asks, in a low, compressed tone, that make her nerves assert themselves.
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Rise of Pyramids "There wasn't much society to go into," says Mona, "and I was only fifteen when staying with Aunt Anastasia. She," confidentially, "made rather a grand match for us, you know." (Lady Rodney grinds her teeth, and tells herself she is on the point of fainting.) "She married the Provost of Trinity College; but I don't think he did her any good. She is the oddest old thing! Even to think of her now makes me laugh. You should have seen her," says Mrs. Geoffrey, leaning back in her chair, and giving way to her usual merry laugh, that rings like a peal of silver bells, "with her wig that had little curls all over it, and her big poke-bonnet like a coal-scuttle!".
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