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The Measure of a Man

CHAPTER II
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I've heard it said that if he goes to stay all night with a friend he has to take his valet with him--can't dress himself, I suppose." "He is always dressed with the utmost nicety and in the tip-top of the fashion." "I'll warrant him.

Jane told me he wore a lace cravat at the Priestly ball, and I have no doubt that his pocket handkerchief was edged with lace.

And yet she said, 'No woman there laughed at him.'" "At any rate he has fine eyes and hair and a pleasant face." "I wouldn't bother myself to deny it.

If anyone fancies curly hair and big brown eyes and white cheeks and no chin to speak of and no feet fit to walk with and no hands to work with, it isn't Martha Hatton and it isn't Jane Harlow, I can take my affidavit on that," and the confident smile which accompanied these words was better than any sworn oath to John Hatton.
"You see, John," she continued, "I talked the man up and down with Jane, from his number four gloves to his number four shoes, and I know what she said--what she said in her own way, mind you.

For Jane's way is to pretend to like what she does not like, just to let people feel the road to her real opinions." "I do not quite understand you, mother." "I don't know whether I quite understand myself, and it isn't my way to explain my words--people usually know what I mean--but I will do it for once, as John Hatton is wanting it.


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