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But there was one at least who did not laugh in court That person was

the accused The notorious de Barral did not laugh because he was

indignant He was impervious to words, to facts, to inferences It

would have been iuilt or his folly--either

by evidence or arguhter Flora try to argue with hireat, its complications so thorny, if I may express

e--as it had

been before her of soIt itated fool, a too awfully noxious fool, and she may even be simply

stupid But she is never dense She's never h as so

Whatever men don't know about women (and it may be a lot or it may be

very little) men and even fathers do know that much And that is why so

many men are afraid of thehter's quietness though of

course he interpreted it in his oay

He would, as Mr Powell depicts, sit on the skylight and bend over the

reclining girl, wondering what there was behind the lost gaze under the

darkened eyelids in the still eyes He would look and look and then he