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"But you will earn ot my

commission That is another hundred and fifty"

"You will have h?"

"I shan't have more than 200 pounds a year for ten years to

come I shall always be poor, if I have to live onpoor? Not now--not very much I may later

People--the officers, are good to me Colonel Hepburn has a

sort of fancy for me--he is a richto sell himself in

sohters"

But she was too proud at once to care whether Colonel

Hepburn's daughter wanted to marry him or not

There came a silence Gudrun entered, and Skrebensky still

rocked languidly on the chair

"You look very lazy," said Gudrun

"I am lazy," he answered

"You look really floppy," she said

"I am floppy," he answered

"Can't you stop?" asked Gudrun

"No--it's the perpetuum mobile"

"You look as if you hadn't a bone in your body"

"That's how I like to feel"

"I don't admire your taste"

"That's my misfortune"