Devota. Evans Augusta Jane

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Название Devota
Автор произведения Evans Augusta Jane
Жанр Зарубежная классика
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me by manœuvring to secure an opportunity for a brief presentation of Amy's appeal."

      Mrs. Churchill clasped and unclasped a jewelled serpent at her wrist, and her brows contracted.

      "That could easily be accomplished by his taking you in to dinner, but unluckily I am handicapped by the Bishop's wife who arrived only this morning and has precedence. Oh, the eternal unfitness of ecclesiastical ingredients in secular pie!"

      "I am very glad he escorts Mrs. Roscoe, because I could not possibly broach my distressing business in the presence of a chattering dinner party, and I must obtain a private interview."

      "I have arranged to consign you during dinner, to the tender mercies of your avowed naval worshipper, Captain Winstead, who is spending the week with his mother, and comes to us for this evening. The Governor and his secretary have exclusive use of the library, and sometimes they are shut up there after dinner. We can watch his movements, and you must storm the citadel and expel Mr. Walton who lives at his typewriter."

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