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Confidence

CHAPTER XXIII
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But I shall come back to-morrow." "I am greatly obliged to you for what you have said.

Such a speech as that deserves to be listened to with consideration.

You may come back to-morrow," Angela added.
On the morrow, when he came back, she received him alone.
"How did you know, at Baden, that I did n't like you ?" he asked, as soon as she would allow him.
She smiled, very gently.
"You assured me yesterday that you did like me." "I mean that I supposed I did n't.

How did you know that ?" "I can only say that I observed." "You must have observed very closely, for, superficially, I rather had the air of admiring you," said Bernard.
"It was very superficial." "You don't mean that; for, after all, that is just what my admiration, my interest in you, were not.

They were deep, they were latent.


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