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 The general nodded his head as if he were ticking off ideas.

"Of course, refusing property is a sign of being one of these fellows. By jove, I must go But as for his not going to live at Groby: if he is setting up house with Miss Wannop Well, he could not flaunt her in the face of the county And, of course, those sheets As you put it it looked as if he'd beggared himself with his dissipations But of course, if he is refusing money from Mark, it's another matter Mark would make up a couple of hundred dozen pairs of sheets without turning a hair Of course there are the extraordinary things Christopher says I've often heard you complain of the immoral way he looks at the serious affairs of life You said he once talked of lethal-chambering unfit children."

He exclaimed:

"I must go. There's Thurston looking at me But what then is it that Christopher has said Hang it all: what is at the bottom of that fellow's mind

"He desires," Sylvia said, and she had no idea when she said it, "to model himself upon our Lord

The general leant back in the sofa. He said almost indulgently:

"Who's that our Lord?"

Sylvia said:

"Upon our Lord Jesus Christ

He sprang to his feet as if she had stabbed him with a hatpin.

"Our he exclaimed. "Good God I always knew he had a screw loose But He said briskly: "Give all his goods to the poor!