” “I don’t think it makes a rap of difference, except for one thing. ‘Don’t involve me in your lover’s tiff. ‘Keep your distance! You dare to tell me I cannot refuse?’ He glared at the girl. ” Her eyes glinted, macabre. She sought hastily in her mind for a plausible answer to an obvious question that didn’t come. He began to tell me something—and stopped. “Didn’t you know he was married?” asked Miss Klegg, and was struck by a thought that made her glance quickly at her companion. “You decline to help us in any way, then,” he said. When I am leading a true life, a pure and simple life free of all stimulants and excitements, I think—I think— oh! with pellucid clearness; but if I so much as take a mouthful of meat—or anything—the mirror is all blurred. His ideas about girls and women were of a sentimental and modest quality; they were creatures, he thought, either too bad for a modern vocabulary, and then frequently most undesirably desirable, or too pure and good for life. The campaign’s a success. “You are a thousand times more beautiful,” he said, “than anything else could be. Why? Here was a curtain indeed. "Come down, sirrah, and I'll teach you how to deface my walls in future.
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