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The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories

CHAPTER II
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I know." She nodded again, and an odd, will-o'-the-wisp smile flitted over her face.
"You seem to know--something of life," the man said.
She uttered a queer choking laugh.

"Life is a big, big swindle," she said.

"The only happy people in the world are those who haven't found it out.

But you--you say there are other things in life besides suffering.
How did you know that if--if you've never had anything but dregs ?" "Ah!" Merryon said.

"You have me there." He was still looking full into those shadowy eyes with a curious, dawning fellowship in his own.
"You have me there," he repeated.


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