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He paused; gazed at me: words almost visible trembled on his lips,-
but his voice was checked.
'Good-night again, sir. There is no debt, benefit, burden,
obligation, in the case.'
'I knew,' he continued, you would do me good in some way, at some
time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression
and smile did not'- (again he stopped)- 'did not' (he proceeded
hastily) 'strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.
People talk of natural sympathies; I have heard of good genii: there
are grains of truth in the wildest fable. My cherished preserver,
He paused; gazed at me: words almost visible trembled on his lips,-
but his voice was checked.
'Good-night again, sir. There is no debt, benefit, burden,
obligation, in the case.'
'I knew,' he continued, you would do me good in some way, at some
time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression
and smile did not'- (again he stopped)- 'did not' (he proceeded
hastily) 'strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.
People talk of natural sympathies; I have heard of good genii: there
are grains of truth in the wildest fable. My cherished preserver,