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‘You are much too pretty and too fascinating.’
‘O, Mary Crofton, Mary Crofton — may I call you Mary, please? we are going to be such friends — if you begin by flattering me like that, how am I ever to trust you and lean upon you? I want some one with a stronger mind than my own, you know, Carolina Hurricanes Jersey dear, to lead me right; for I’m the weakest, vainest creature in the world, I believe. Papa has spoiled me so.’
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