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"It's my business, you know," he went on, "to help you to see these things as the people who are fondest of you see theotts, the Wellands, the van der Luydens, all your friends and relations: if I didn't show you honestly how they judge such questions, it wouldn't be fair ofwith her in his eagerness to cover up that yawning silence

She said slowly: "No; it wouldn't be fair"

The fire had cru appeal for attention Madame Olenska rose, wound it up and returned to the fire, but without resunify that there was nothing more for either of them to say, and Archer stood up also

"Very well; I will do what you wish," she said abruptly The blood rushed to his forehead; and, taken aback by the suddenness of her surrender, he caught her two hands aardly in his

"I--I do want to help you," he said

"You do help ht, my cousin"

He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate