Sunday, January 6, 2008

Regatta At Argenteuil

I don't understand you," said Mr. Lorry. ¡¡¡¡"I dare say not," rejoined Stryver, nodding his head in a smoothing and final way; "no matter, no matter." ¡¡¡¡"But it does matter," Mr. Lorry urged. ¡¡¡¡"No it doesn't; I assure you it doesn't. Having supposed that there was sense where there is no sense, and a laudable ambition where there is not a laudable ambition, I am well out of my mistake, and no harm is done. Young women have committed similar follies often before,

and have repented them in poverty and obscurity often before. In an unselfish aspect, I am sorry that the thing is dropped, because it would have been a bad thing for me in a worldly point of view; in a selfish aspect, I am glad that the thing has dropped, because it would have been a bad thing for me in a worldly point of view- it is hardly necessary to say I could have gained

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