He asked a few questions about the shooting, and referred with
great regret to his absence from the Brake country.
'I am sure Mr Cassewary could spare you for another fortnight,'
the Duke said to his neighbour, alluding to a visit which she now
intended to make.
'If so he would have to spare me altogether,' said Mabel, 'for I
must meet my father in London in the middle of January.'
'Could you not put it off for another year?'
'You would think I had taken root and was growing at Matching.'
'Of all our products you would be the most delightful, and the
most charming,--and we would hope the most permanent,' said the
courteous Duke.
'After being here so long I need hardly say that I like Matching
better than any place in the world. I suppose it is the contrast
to Grex.'
'Grex was a palace,' said the Duke, 'before a wall of this house
had been built.'
'Grex is very old and very wild,--and very uncomfortable. But I
love it dearly. Matching is the very reverse of Grex.'
'Not I hope in your affections.'
'I did not mean that.
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