"So then you actually pity others while remaining totally unconcerned regarding yourself ?" "Oh, no; you greatly mistake, or else wilfully misconstrue.

I am not unconcerned, yet there is a very wide difference, I am sure.

This girl is at the Gayety from deliberate choice; she as much as told me so.
She is in love with that sort of life.

Probably she has never known anything better, while I am merely fighting out a bit of hard luck, and, within two weeks, at the longest, shall again be free.

Surely, you cannot hint that we stand upon the same level." "God forbid!" fervently.