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"It is all very petty, s; the little ones should be ignored"

To which Nora replied: "To a wo; they

are the daily routine, the expected, the necessary things What you call

the big things in life are accidents And, oh! I have pride" She folded

her ar boso

had stirred her deeply

"Wilfulness is called pride by some; and stubbornness But you know, as

well as I do, that yours is resentnation Yes, you have

pride, but it has not been brought into this affair Pride is that within

which prevents us fro mean or sordid acts; and you could not do one

or the other if you tried The sentiment in you which should be

developed"

"Is ht or wrong of a thing"

"Padre, I have eyes, eyes; I saw"

He twirled the middle button of his cassock "The eyes see and the ears

hear, but these are only witnesses, laying the matter before the court of

the last resort, which is the mind It is there we sift the evidence"

"He had the insufferable insolence to order Herr Rosen to leave," going

around the barrier of his well-ordered logic