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sniff, “goes and disturbs him half a dozen times a day. The poor man wouldn’t even get his meals if I didn’t take them up to him, for he’d rather face a den of roaring lions than the Baroness” (another sniff) “and Miss Charlotte and Miss Euphronia across the dinner-table. And small blame to him, for three more disagreeable females it’s never been my ill fortune to meet. I shouldn’t