The Age of Innocence

it—in fact to induce the whole family to cover and condone their monstrous dishonour.

\"I said to her: 'Honour's always been honour, and honesty honesty, in Manson Mingott's house, and will be till I'm carried out of it feet first,'\" the old woman had stammered into her daughter's ear, in the thick voice of the partly paralysed. \"And when she said: 'But my name, Auntie—my name's Regina Dallas,' I said: 'It was Beaufort when he covered you with jewels,


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it—in fact to induce the whole family to cover and condone their monstrous dishonour.

\"I said to her: 'Honour's always been honour, and honesty honesty, in Manson Mingott's house, and will be till I'm carried out of it feet first,'\" the old woman had stammered into her daughter's ear, in the thick voice of the partly paralysed. \"And when she said: 'But my name, Auntie—my name's Regina Dallas,' I said: 'It was Beaufort when he covered you with jewels,


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