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Proper pride

Chapter 20: Palms and Temples:
By B. M. Croker
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Intertwined lives of an upper-class household and its servants unfold through romantic entanglements, social ambition, and domestic incident. The narrative moves between country estates and town: a gentleman is pressed into riding a perilous racehorse, engagements and misunderstandings complicate relationships, and a maid’s discovery produces a pivotal turn. Balls, misplaced jewelry, letters, and intimate household talk reveal tensions between public reputation and private feeling. The story follows these tensions through comic and dramatic episodes toward reconciliations that resolve personal grievances and restore everyday order.

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