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"What was it you were saying about selfishness?" she asked "Oh, I rehed, adding: "Selfishness is so simply defined you know"

"Is it? How"

"A refusal to renounce That covers everything," she concluded

"Soested

"In what case for example?"

"Well, suppose we take love"

"Very well, you may take it if you like it"

"Suppose you loved a man!" he insisted

"Let him beware! What then?"

"--And, suppose it would distress your faive him up"

"If you loved him?"

"Love? That is the poorest excuse for selfishness, Mr Siward"

"So you would ruin your happiness and his--"

"A girl ought to finda selfish love than in love itself," announced Miss Landis with that serious conviction characteristic of her years

"Of course," assented Siith a touch oflove than in love itself, it would be foolish not to do it--"