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"Georgie" "I worshipped that girl for her goodness, and now she's ready to chuck her principles and obedience and everything else she thinks sacred to the winds. She'd bolt with me to-morrow if I whistled to her. She isn't a bit better than anybody else when she wants a thing badly. When I think of the way she used to preach about honor. Ugh!"

"Georgie!"

"Yes," said Georgie. "I'm sorry for her, but I am disappointed in her too, and I shall show her that a man's idea of honor isn't a woman's. I wrote her a kind, unselfish letter. I put myself entirely on one side. I told her that she must forget me at once, and that I should never be quite easy in my mind until I saw her happily married to someone else. I told her she must put me out of her thoughts altogether if she wanted me to be happy. I don't mean to spoil her life. I'm not a selfish beast."

"And so that's your idea of an unselfish letter, is it?" said I slowly. "I suppose it will cheer her up immensely." 274