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The Hand But Not the Heart

CHAPTER I
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Why should the real man shrink away, and let the meretricious fop and the man 'made of money' win the beautiful and the best?
Women are not such fools as to prefer tinsel to gold--the outside making up to the inner manhood! Neither are they so dim-sighted that they cannot perceive who is the man and who the 'fellow.' My word for it, if Miss Loring's mind was known, you have a higher place therein than Dexter." Just then the two persons of whom they were speaking passed near to them, Miss Loring on the arm of Dexter, her face radiant with smiles.

He was saying something to which she was listening, evidently pleased with his remarks.

The sight chafed the mind of Hendrickson, and he said, sarcastically-- "Like all the rest, Mrs.Denison! Gold is the magnet." "You are in a strange humor to-night, Paul," answered his friend, "and your humor makes you unjust.

It is not fair to judge Miss Loring in this superficial way.

Because she is cheerful and social in a company like this, are you to draw narrow conclusions touching her heart-preferences ?" "Why was she not as cheerful and as social with me, as she is now with that fellow ?" said the young man, a measure of indignation in the tones of his voice.


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