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Mrs Fyne heard all this without turning her head away fro had to listen and to look on too I shall not try

to form a suroodnessin

her lap; her head was lowered as if in deep thought; and the other went

on delivering a sort of horatitude was condeether with the proverbial fact

that it "goes before a fall" There were also soer of nonsensical notions and the disadvantages of a quick

teainst one "And if anybody ever

wanted friends in the world it's you, irl" Even respect for

parental authority was invoked "In the first hour of his trouble your

father wrote to et it Yes, to me,

just a plain man, rather than to any of his fine West-End friends You

can't get over that And a father's a father noto throw over your own father--are

you?"

It was difficult to say whether he was more absurd than cruel or more

cruel than absurd Mrs Fyne, with the fine ear of a wo intention in hislanced quickly over her shoulder and saw