abel's not afraid of me, and it's not what I wish," he said
at last. "To what do you want to provoke me when you say such things
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really you she feared."
"You may have said things that were in very bad taste; I'm not
responsible for that. I didn't see the use of your going to see her at
all: you're capable of acting without her. I've not made you afraid of
me that I can see cheap carton newports," he went on; "how then should I have made her?
You're at least as brave. I can't think where you've picked up such
rubbish; one might suppose you knew me by this time." He got up as
he spoke and walked to the chimney, where he stood a moment bending
his eye, as if he had seen them for the first time, on the delicate
specimens of rare porcelain with which it was covered. He took up a
small cup and held it in his hand; then, still holding it and
leaning his arm on the mantel, he pursued: "You always see too much in
everything; you overdo it; you lose sight of the real. I'm much
simpler than you think."
"I think you're very simple." And Madame Merle kept her eye on her
cup. "I've come to that with time. I judged you, as I say, of old; but
it's only since your marriage that I've understood you. I've seen
better what you have been to your wife than I ever saw what you were
for me. Please be very careful of that precious object."
"It already has a wee bit of a tiny crack," said Osmond dryly as
he put it down. "If you didn't understand me before I married it was
cruelly rash of you to put me into such a box. However newport cigarettes, I took a fancy
to my box myself; I thought it would be a comfortable fit. I asked
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very little; I only asked that she should like me."
"That she should like you so much!"
"So much, of course; in such a case one asks the maximum. That she
should adore me, if you will. Oh yes, I wanted that."
"I never adored you," said Madame Merle.
"Ah, but you pretended to!"
"It's true that you never accused me of being a comfortable fit,"
Madame Merle went on.
"My wife has declined-declined to do anything of the sort," said
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low sigh but having a glance at the same time for the contents of
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"You express yourself like a sentence in a copy-book. We must look
for our comfort where we can find it. If my wife doesn't like me, at
least my child does. I shall look for compensations in Pansy.
Fortunately I haven't a fault to find with her."
"Ah," she said softly, "if I had a
at last. "To what do you want to provoke me when you say such things
as that?"
"I've thought over all the harm you can do me marlboro gold," Madame Merle
answered. "Your wife was afraid of me this morning, but in me it was
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really you she feared."
"You may have said things that were in very bad taste; I'm not
responsible for that. I didn't see the use of your going to see her at
all: you're capable of acting without her. I've not made you afraid of
me that I can see cheap carton newports," he went on; "how then should I have made her?
You're at least as brave. I can't think where you've picked up such
rubbish; one might suppose you knew me by this time." He got up as
he spoke and walked to the chimney, where he stood a moment bending
his eye, as if he had seen them for the first time, on the delicate
specimens of rare porcelain with which it was covered. He took up a
small cup and held it in his hand; then, still holding it and
leaning his arm on the mantel, he pursued: "You always see too much in
everything; you overdo it; you lose sight of the real. I'm much
simpler than you think."
"I think you're very simple." And Madame Merle kept her eye on her
cup. "I've come to that with time. I judged you, as I say, of old; but
it's only since your marriage that I've understood you. I've seen
better what you have been to your wife than I ever saw what you were
for me. Please be very careful of that precious object."
"It already has a wee bit of a tiny crack," said Osmond dryly as
he put it down. "If you didn't understand me before I married it was
cruelly rash of you to put me into such a box. However newport cigarettes, I took a fancy
to my box myself; I thought it would be a comfortable fit. I asked
----------------------- 802-----------------------
very little; I only asked that she should like me."
"That she should like you so much!"
"So much, of course; in such a case one asks the maximum. That she
should adore me, if you will. Oh yes, I wanted that."
"I never adored you," said Madame Merle.
"Ah, but you pretended to!"
"It's true that you never accused me of being a comfortable fit,"
Madame Merle went on.
"My wife has declined-declined to do anything of the sort," said
Osmond. "If you're determined to make a tragedy of that, the tragedy's
hardly for her."
"The tragedy's for me!" Madame Merle exclaimed authentic nfl jerseys, rising with a long
low sigh but having a glance at the same time for the contents of
her mantel-shelf. "It appears that I'm to be severely taught the
disadvantages of a false position."
"You express yourself like a sentence in a copy-book. We must look
for our comfort where we can find it. If my wife doesn't like me, at
least my child does. I shall look for compensations in Pansy.
Fortunately I haven't a fault to find with her."
"Ah," she said softly, "if I had a
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