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"But why isn't my conscience as practical as my clothes?" persisted

Madeline "And why is the fortune made to-day in Montana mines and lost

to-morrow in Wall Street any more practical than this sahts that circle about it?

'Practical' is such a foolish word, Dick"

"Undoubtedly, to you," said Dick with a little sneer "But toit is the word that makes

the dictionary heavy It is because you do not know its ht to use the despised term, 'ladies,' become the

very beautiful and useless articles that you are--works of art, which

may thrill and charm a man for a moment, when he has time to look at

them, but which bear little relation to the stress of life which you can

not comprehend"

"Dick!" Madeline spoke almost with tears in her eyes "It is not like

you to have a fling at wo"

"Gathering idiocy, you

fool, the ideal wooal tohich the rest of humanity must

run; and the sooner you bend all your practical faculties in that

direction, and there abase the knee, the better for you"

He nodded down the table toward his wife, and she pursed up her lips and

said, "You nice goose! That's the way to keep us sweet-te to turn cynic, Dick," said Ellery "The rôle

does not fit you"