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Excerpt from The Visits of Elizabeth Lady Cecilia pecked my Cheek, and gave me two fingers; and asked me, in a voice right up at the top, how were you. I said you were better, and - you know what you told me to say. She murmured something while she was listening to what a woman with a sweet frock and green eyes was saying at the other end of the table. There was heaps of tea. She waved vaguely for me to sit down, which I did; but there was a foot stool near, and it was half dark, so I fell over that, but not very badly, and got safely to my seat. Lady Cecilia - continuing her conversa tion across the room all the time poured out a cup of tea, with lumps and lump: of sugar in it, and lots of cream, just What you would give to a child for a treat! And she handed it to me, but I said, Oh! Please. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.