I thought you were free from all vulgar sentimentalism and that you had a more independent mind.

I was mistaken in you, that's all.' With that he pretends to dash a tear from his eye-crocodile!--and goes out, leaving me in my fur by the blazing fire, my teeth going like castanets.

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Did you ever hear of anything so stupid as this affair ?" she concluded in a tone of extreme candour and a profound unreadable stare that went far beyond us both.