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"No----but--"

"Get well, my boy--and these silly introspective fancies will leave

you--Self analysis all the tiine

that they matter to the Bon Dieu as ht, Duchesse, that is why I said Miss Sharp--ets at hts----"

And then with a total change of subject she remarked

"Thou art not in love, Nicholas?"

I felt a hot flush rise to irl--Again how I resent physical weakness reacting on rily--"With whorave;re aest that Odette or Coralie or

Alice could cause such an emotion!"

"Oh! for them perhaps no--they are for the senses oftih I

myself abhor thee de Clerté?--Daisy Ryven?--both with husbands--"

"Not as if that prevented things" the Duchesse announced

reflectively--"Well, well--Some of my blessés show just your symptoms,

Nicholas, and I discover almost immediately it is because they are in

love--with the brain--with the ierous kind-- When it is with a pretty face alone--a good

dose and a new book helps greatly"