Excerpt from The Celebrity at Home I am right in saying we are all tolerable. The annoying thing is that the new cook, who knows what she is talking about, says that children go in and out so, and even Aunt Gerty says that fancy children never last, and after all this, I feel that the pretty ones can never count on keeping up to their own standard.

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