24/27 If you are generous you will not say another word about it." "But I am so sorry." "There,--that's it. You won't perceive that the expression of such sorrow is a personal injury to me. I don't want you to be sorry." "How am I to help it ?" "You need not express it. I don't come pitying you for supposed troubles. You have plenty of money; but if you were so poor that you could eat nothing but cold mutton, I shouldn't condole with you as to the state of your larder. |