The things we do!

Miss Newcome and Lady Kew attended Madame de
Moncontour's Wednesday evenings. "It is as well, my dear, for the
interests of the family that we should be particularly civil to these
people," Lady Kew said; and accordingly she came to the Hotel de Florac,
and was perfectly insolent to Madame la Princesse every Thursday evening.
Towards Madame de Florac, even Lady Kew could not be rude. She was so
gentle as to give no excuse for assault: Lady Kew vouchsafed you to
pronounce that Madame de Florac was "tres grande dame;"--"of the sort
which is almost impossible to find nowadays," Lady Kew said, who thought
she possessed this dignity in her own person. When Madame de Florac,
blushing, asked Ethel to come and see her, Ethel's grandmother consented
with the utmost willingness. "She is very devote, I have heard, and will
try and convert you. Of course you will hold your own about that sort of
thing; and have the good sense to keep off theology. There is no Roman
Catholic parti in England or Scotland that is to be thought for a moment.


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