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"Not at all," said he: "I care for myself when necessary I am

well now What do you see amiss in me?"

This was said with a careless, abstracted indifference, which showed

that my solicitude was, at least in his opinion, wholly superfluous

I was silenced

He still slowly er over his upper lip, and still his

eye dwelt dreaent to say

soht from

the door, which was behind him

"No, no!" he responded shortly and somewhat testily

"Well," I reflected, "if you won't talk, you may be still; I'll let

you alone now, and return to my book"

So I snuffed the candle and resumed the perusal of "Marmion" He

soon stirred; my eye was instantly drawn to his movements; he only

took out a morocco pocket-book, thence produced a letter, which he

read in silence, folded it, put it back, relapsed into meditation

It was vain to try to read with such an inscrutable fixture before

ht rebuff

me if my he liked, but talk I would