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"I pillaged books fro etalonetoo far frooodness you would take --?

"That I aet nervous about people's opinion and sensitive to my own eccentricity It is a sad case for a man who never used to care a straw for a soul on earth"

"Lewie, attend to ravity "You have not by any chance been falling in love?"

The accused blushed like a girl, and lied withal like a trooper, to the delight of the un-Christian George

"Well, then, ets sentis, for he has a crazy intuition that it is the nor themselves but a hair's-breadth from the commonplace I suppose it is only another of the ies itself about"

"You think it an error?" said Leith such an air of relief that George began to laugh and Wratislaw looked comically suspicious

"Why the tone of joy, Lewie?"

"I wanted your opinion," said the perjured youngI was talking about I want to be nores of Gledsmuir Do you know Stocks?"

"Surely"

"An excellent person, but I never heard him utter a word above a child's capacity He can talk theplatitudes as if he had found at last the one and only truth And people are impressed"

Wratislaw pulled down his eyebrows and proceeded to defend a Scottish constituency against the libel of gullibility But Leas not listening He did not think of the iirl who clahts She was, he knew, an enthusiast for the finer sentio claimed a monopoly He felt bitterly jealous-the jealousy of the innocent man to osthe stage attributes of a lover He could not pose as a mirror of all virtues, a fanatic for the True and the Good Sootism, unscrupulousness, which he felt miserably must make him unlovely in certain eyes Nor would the contest he was entering upon improve this fancied reputation of his He would have to say hard, unfeeling things against what all the world would applaud as generous sentiment