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Miss
McPherson is, at least, well connected," Geraldine said, mollified at
once as she recalled her intimacy with Lady Jane McPherson.
To be acquainted with a titled lady was, in her opinion, something to be
proud of, and since her return from Europe she had wearied and disgusted
her friends with her frequent allusions to Lady Jane and her visit to
Penrhyn Park where she had met her. And Miss McPherson was her
sister-in-law, and on that account she must be tolerated and treated, at
least, with a show of friendship. So when she heard that she had arrived
she went to meet her with a good deal of gush and demonstration, which,
however, did not in the least mislead the lady with regard to her real
sentiments, for she and Geraldine had always been at odds, and from the
very nature of things there could be no real sympathy between the
fashionable lady of society, whose life was all a deception, and the
blunt, outspoken woman, who called a spade a spade, and whose rule of
action was, as she expressed it, the naked truth and nothing but the
naked truth.


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