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Life’s Little Ironies

CHAPTER I
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I am a bachelor by nature, and instinct, and habit, and everything.

Besides, though I respect her still (for she was not an atom to blame), I haven't any shadow of love for her.

In my mind she exists as one of those women you think well of, but find uninteresting.

It would be purely with the idea of putting wrong right that I should hunt her up, and propose to do it off-hand.' 'You don't think of it seriously ?' said his surprised friend.
'I sometimes think that I would, if it were practicable; simply, as I say, to recover my sense of being a man of honour.' 'I wish you luck in the enterprise,' said Doctor Bindon.

'You'll soon be out of that chair, and then you can put your impulse to the test.
But--after twenty years of silence--I should say, don't!'.


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