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Excerpt from Rosabella or a Mother's Marriage, a Novel, Vol. 4 of 5
Dear, no, she replied, but morning service is so unreasonably long, it is utter ly impossible to remain animate through it. I used to pronounce Mrs. Veneer really little less than a barbarian, to give us.italian exercises a yard long to make; a speech in a German, play to get off; or an extract from Voltaire, or a Spanish tale; to translate into not less than four different languages, if she detected any of-us in the fact of napping at church; which was inevitable, when 'the pulpit orator was neither old enough, nor ugly enough to quiz; or the sermon too in sipidly unexceptionable to criticise. But, a-propos of soporificks and now, drawing off to join Lord Bayswater in the path he had taken, lowering her voice, par ticularly addressed him.
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