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know that I meant no disrespect to the boy I only wanted to cheer you

up"

"I understand, sir; it is of no consequence I--I had so else

on my mind It is of no consequence" The color faded, and his face

fell into its usual bleak lines, but his an to speak with ponderous dignity "This love- to in with, she is eleven years older than

he--he told his mother so He added, if you please! that he hoped to

marry her"

"Well! Well!" said Dr Lavendar

"I told hiht continued, "that in my very humble opinion it

was contemptible for a man to marry and allow another man to support

his wife"

Dr Lavendar sat up in shocked dismay "Samuel!"

"I, sir," the banker explained, "am his father, and I support him If

heto my poor

theories of propriety, a man who lets another man support his wife had

better not have one"