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"Ah--then I won't ask hih; and May echoed, bewildered: "Goodness--ask the Carfrys' tutor?"

"Well, not on the same day with the Carfrys, if you prefer I shouldn't But I did rather want another talk with hi for a job in New York"

Her surprise increased with her indifference: he al tainted with "foreignness"

"A job in New York? What sort of a job? People don't have French tutors: what does he want to do?"

"Chiefly to enjoy good conversation, I understand," her husband retorted perversely; and she broke into an appreciative laugh "Oh, Newland, how funny! Isn't that FRENCH?"

On the whole, he was glad to have theto take seriously his wish to invite M Riviere Another after-dinner talk would have made it difficult to avoid the question of New York; and the more Archer considered it the less he was able to fit M Riviere into any conceivable picture of New York as he knew it

He perceived with a flash of chilling insight that in future atively solved for hi train into the house he took refuge in the co platitude that the first six e "After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other's angles," he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep