A Fair Fraud — page 46: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER III Durinc breakfast at Crookthorpe Hall, Marion Blake always presided over the tea and coffee cups, and if the house was full her task was sometimes so arduous that she had very little time to eat any breakfast herself. A large silver urn and a whole array of silver jugs and pots sheltered her from observation, and thus screened from the rest of the company, she ministered to their needs without being much spoken to or expected to join in the conversa- tion. This suited her perfectly, for she was naturally shy and retiring, whilst she neverthe- less thoroughly enjoyed watching and listening to all that was going on. On the first morning after their arrival the two pretty visitors came down toyether to breakfast in excellent time. They were dressed altke in dark violet velvet skirts, with paler violet silk shirts. And thus attired, they looked so exactly like sisters as they came into the room together, their arms interiwined, that Marion was again struck with Mrs Lane’s extraordinary youthfulness of appearance. It seemed, indeed, 35 Goo Sp! C(O)