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The Younger Set

CHAPTER VI
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Which is true sometimes and sometimes not.

Common sense, not laws, must govern a man in that matter.

But if any motive except desire to be a decent citizen sways a self-punished man toward self-leniency, then is he unpardonable if he breaks those laws which truly were fashioned for such as he!" "Saint Simon! Saint Simon! Will you please arise, stretch your limbs, and descend from your pillar ?" said Nina; "because I am going to say something that is very, very serious; and very near my heart." "I remember," he said; "it's about Eileen, isn't it ?" "Yes, it is about Eileen." He waited; and again his sister's eyes began restlessly searching his for something that she seemed unable to find.
"You make it a little difficult, Phil; I don't believe I had better speak of it." "Why not ?" "Why, just because you ask me 'why not ?' for example." "Is it anything that worries you about Eileen ?" "N-no; not exactly.


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