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The President

CHAPTER VIII
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HOW STORRI WOOED MRS.

HANWAY-HARLEY Storri was a sensualist to his fingers' ends.

Being a sensualist, he was perforce an egotist, and the smallest of his desires became the star by which he laid his course.

Through stress of appetites, as powerful as they were gross, he had grown sharp to calculate, and quick to see.

He was controlled and hurried down by currents of a turbid selfishness; nor would he have stopped at any cruelty, balked at any crime, when prompted of what brute hungers kept his soul awake.


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