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  ...and it was as much a triumph to me as to you; I cannot express my feeling--I cannot say half that I would. If I might only--'
'Thank you much,' said Ethelberta, with dignity. 'Thank you for bringing my book, but I must go home now. I know that you will see that it is not necessary for us to be talking here.'
'Yes--you are quite right,' said the repressed young painter, struck by her seriousness. 'Blame me; I ought to have known better. But perhaps a man--well, I will say it- A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.   I saw that, and hoped that I might speak without real harm.'
'You calculated how to be uncalculating, and are natural by art!' she said, with the slightest accent of sarcasm. 'But pray do not attend me further--it is not at all necessary or desirable. My maid is in the carriage.' She bowed, turned, and entered the vehicle, seating herself beside Picotee.
'It was harsh!' said Ladywell to himself, as he looked after the retreating carriage. 'I was a fool; but it was harsh. Yet...   Hardy, Thomas

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