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must own,' on.
'
EYES.
said Mrs. Swancourt,
" Instead of this
in the hands of
we found
some young
and read ourselves
lady, hardly
arrived at years of discretion, to judge
the
device
silly
by
has been thought worth
it
while to adopt on the title-page, with the idea of disguising her sex." ^I
am
nantly.
not "silly"!' said Elfride indig'
He might have
me
called
any-
thing but that.'
'You of a
are not indeed.
young lady
.
.
Well:— "Hands
whose chapters are
.
simply devoted to impossible tournaments, towers,
and escapades, which read
like flat
copies of like scenes in the stories of Mr.
G. P. R. James, and the most unreal portions of Ivanhoe. artificial that
turns away."
overmuch that
The
bait
is
so palpably
the most credulous gudgeon
Now,
my
dear, I don't see
to complain of in that.
you were
clever
enough
to
think of Sir Walter Scott, which deal.'
It proves
make him is
a great
