The sister, Mrs Croft, had then been out of England, accompanying her

husband on a foreign station, and her own sister, Mary, had been at

school while it all occurred; and never admitted by the pride of some,

and the delicacy of others, to the smallest knowledge of it afterwards.

With these supports, she hoped that the acquaintance between herself

and the Crofts, which, with Lady Russell, still resident in Kellynch,

and Mary fixed only three miles off, must be anticipated, need not

involve any particular awkwardness.




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