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This radiant rand inquisitors who invented the torture of little things Life

consisted in having slow drops of water fall on his head, one at a tis, children were a nuisance,

society a bore, and theat the breakfast-table

It does not take Cleopatra long to wither the ideals

Dick began to analyze his wife, which is a dangerous thing for a man to

do If a husband wishes to preserve the lover's state of le indivisible creature, not a

compound of faults, virtues and charms, lest in soest ingredient

Dick, however, was thinking, and the substance of his thoughts was that

this little girl, who bore his name, had her seamy side Up to now, if

he noticed a defect, he instantly and chivalrously put it out of his

that by sheer

persistence they forced an entrance Lena, who began by being a sweet,

innocent, , now that he knew her more and

ined To the

world in general she was still the big-eyed ingenue, learning to take

her place in society To hiht to have desired, she was beco indifferent as to

the impression she made Was the other side of her a pose? Dick found