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turned about and went in

We know that, when the ht better of it and decided

to meet Flora's father in that privacy of the e Why Anthony appeared to shrink from the

contact, he as sufficiently self-confident not only to face but to

absolutely create a situation alenerosity,

is difficult to explain Perhaps when he calance

he found that man so different outwardly from what he expected that he

decided to ht Possibly

the general secrecy of his relation to the girl ht have influenced

hi brought

him face to face with the necessity to speak and act a lie; to appear

what he was not and what he could never be, unless, unless-In short, we'll say if you like that for various reasons, all having to

do with the delicate rectitude of his nature, Roderick Anthony (a man of

whom his chief htened There is a Neenerosity too, like all

the other imprudences of men who dare to be lawless and proud"