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1  Miss Cardew's family solicitors are Messrs.
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2  It's a sort of thing that runs in families.
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3  Outside the family circle, papa, I am glad to say, is entirely unknown.
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4  Until yesterday I had no idea that there were any families or persons whose origin was a Terminus.
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5  I need hardly tell you that in families of high position strange coincidences are not supposed to occur.
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6  In the second place, whenever I do dine there I am always treated as a member of the family, and sent down with either no woman at all, or two.
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7  To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
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