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Sally Sellers? Mulberry Sellers, are you losing your mind?"  
There--please do not forget who you are, and who I am; remember your own  
dignity, be considerate also of mine. It were best to cease from using  
my family name, now, Lady Rossmore."  
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Goodness gracious, well, I never! What am I to call you then?"  
In private, the ordinary terms of endearment will still be admissible,  
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to some degree; but in public it will be more becoming if your ladyship  
will speak to me as my lord, or your lordship, and of me as Rossmore, or  
the Earl, or his Lordship, and--"  
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Oh, scat! I can't ever do it, Berry."  
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But indeed you must, my love--we must live up to our altered position  
and submit with what grace we may to its requirements."  
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Well, all right, have it your own way; I've never set my wishes against  
your commands yet, Mul--my lord, and it's late to begin now, though to my  
mind it's the rottenest foolishness that ever was."  
"Spoken like my own true wife! There, kiss and be friends again."  
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But--Gwendolen! I don't know how I am ever going to stand that name.  
Why, a body wouldn't know Sally Sellers in it. It's too large for her;  
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