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the ladies withdrew, the Baroness was in fits of laughter at herself. "Those horrid servants had so annoyed her, that she supposed she must almost have lost her temper, and certainly must have lost her senses when she spoke as she had done to her little Rachel; such a dear, and so amusing with her funny little quotations—the Baroness delighted in them, and would not miss one for the world."
"'The world is a huge thing, a large price for a small vice.' That is from Othello, Aunt."
"You clever creature, what talents you have! The Baron always says you are the shrewdest woman he ever saw, it would be impossible to deceive you."
"Then some deceit is intended," was the shrewd woman's thought, and she made up her mind to watch.
