suffer, they don't feel! Sometimes I have been quite uneasy for that sort of people; but now I shall just dismiss the idea of them, altogether. Live and learn. I had my doubts, I confess, but now they're cleared up. I didn't know, and now I do know, and that shows the advantage of asking - don't it?' ¡¡¡¡I believed that Steerforth had said what he had, in jest, or to draw Miss Dartle out; and I expected him to say as much when she was gone, and we two were sitting before the fire. But he merely asked me what I thought of her. ¡¡¡¡'She is very clever, is she not?'
asked. ¡¡¡¡'Clever! She brings everything to a grindstone,' said Steerforth, and sharpens it, as she has sharpened her own face and figure these years past. She has worn herself away by constant sharpening. She is all edge.' ¡¡¡¡'What a remarkable scar that is upon her lip!' I said. ¡¡¡¡Steerforth's face fell, and he paused a moment. ¡¡¡¡'Why, the fact is,' he returned, 'I did that.'
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