ever taken unawares? But — oh, Ned, our
friendship has been so good and so pleasant! What a pity to
spoil it! Don't you feel how splendid it is that a young man and
a young woman should be able to talk face to face as we have
talked?"
"I don't know, Gladys. You see,see, I can talk face to face with
with the station-master." I can't
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frank, perfectly kindly, and perfectlyperfectly unsexual.
instincts are all against a woman being too frank and at
ease with me. It is no compliment to a man. Where the real
feeling begins, timidity and distrust are its
heritage from old wicked days when love and violence
often hand in hand. The bent head, the averted eye, the
voice, the wincing figure — these, and not the unshrinking
and frank reply, are the true signals of passion. Even in
short life I had learned as much as that — or had inherited it
that race memory which we call
Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless
person upon earth, — a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo
of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon
his own silly self. If anything could have driven me from Gladys,
it would have been the thought of such a father-in-law. I am
convinced that he really believed in his heart that I came round
to the Chestnuts three days a week for the pleasure of his
company, and very especially
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Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless
person upon earth, — a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo
of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon
his own silly self. If anything could have driven me from Gladys,
it would have been the thought of such a father-in-law. I am
convinced that he really believed in his heart that I came round
to the Chestnuts three days a week for the pleasure of his
company, and very especially to hear his views upon
bimetallism, a subject upon which he was by way of being an
authority.
For an hour or more that evening I listened to his
monotonous chirrup about bad money driving out good, the
token value of silver, the depreciation of the rupee, and the true
standards of exchange.
Malone desires to state that both the injunction
for restraint and the libel action have been withdrawn
unreservedly by Professor G. E. Challenger, who, being satisfied
that no criticism or comment in this book is meant in an
offensive spirit, has guaranteed that he will place no
impediment to its publication and
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Malone desires to state that both the injunction
for restraint and the libel action have been withdrawn
unreservedly by Professor G. E. Challenger, who, being satisfied
that no criticism or comment in this book is meant in an
offensive spirit, has guaranteed that he will place no
impediment to its publication and circulation.
silly self. If anything could have driven me from Gladys,
it would have been the thought of such a father-in-law. I am
convinced that he really believed in his heart that I came round
to the Chestnuts three days a week for the pleasure of his
company, and very especially to hear his views upon
bimetallism, a subject upon which he was by way of being an
authority.
For an hour or more that evening I listened to his
monotonous chirrup about bad money driving out good, the
token value of silver, the depreciation of the rupee, and the true
standards of exchange.
"Suppose," he cried with feeble violence, "that all the debts
in the world were called up simultaneously, and immediate
payment insisted upon, — what under our