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'Then I am content that she should marry him,' said Lady Maulevrier,
'although he is a nobody.'
'Oh, but he is a very important nobody, a nobody who can get a peerage
next year, backed by the Maulevrier influence, which I suppose would
count for something.'
'Most of my friends are dead,' said Lady Maulevrier, 'but there are a
few survivors of the past who might help me.'
'I don't think there'll be any difficulty or doubt about the peerage.
Smithson stumped up very handsomely at the last General Election, and
the Conservatives are not strong enough to be ungrateful. "These have,
no master."'


CHAPTER XXXII.
WAYS AND MEANS.

The three days that followed were among the happiest days of Mary
Haselden's young life. Lady Maulevrier had become strangely indulgent. A
softening influence of some kind had worked upon that haughty spirit,
and it seemed as if her whole nature was changed--or it might be, Mary
thought, that this softer side of her character had always been turned
to Lesbia, while to Mary herself it was altogether new.


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