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"The idea is simply preposterous. I decline to entertain it. I cannot listen to it-not for one moment. Never!"
The speaker was Mrs. Purling, "heiress of the Purlings"; imperious, emphatic, self-opinionated, as women become who have had their own way all their lives through.
"But, mother," went on Harold, her only son-like herself, large and b