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Rh the warm, drowsy scent of them. Then, taking himself by the shoulders, as it were, he sat down.

he said,

said Charlie with marked neutrality.

Charlie's face remained perfectly expressionless.

he said slowly.

Bertie Keynes hailed this with obvious relief. It was easier to him to put up his father's ideas for his friend, if he chose, to box with, than receive the attack on his own person. He did not care in the least how much Charlie attacked his father's opinions on matrimony; nor, on the other hand, would the Marquis of Bolton care either, because the fact of his never caring for anything was so widely known as to