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Excerpt: ... or less." "I mean when you and I were alone together, before we turned in." "Oh, yes. I remember something about it." "It would be too silly to expect you to remember much," he went on after a pause, with a more delicate irony than heretofore. "But, as a matter of fact, I believe I said it was all rot that people talked about the impossibility of being mere pals with a woman, and all that sort of thing." "I believe you did.'" "Well, then, that was rot. That's all." I turned round with my razor in mid-air, "My dear fellow " I exclaimed. "Quite funny, isn't it?" he laughed, but rather harshly, while his mountain bronze deepened under my scrutiny. "You are not in earnest, Bob " said I; and on the word his laughter ended, his colour went. "I am," he answered through his teeth. "Are you?" Never was war carried more suddenly into the enemy's country, or that enemy's breath more completely taken away than mine. What could I say? "As much as you are, I should hope " was what I ultimately said. The lad stood raking me with a steady fire from his blue eyes. "I mean to marry her," he said, "if she will have me." There was no laughing at him. Though barely twenty, as I knew, he was man enough for any age as we faced each other in my room, and a man who knew his own mind into the bargain. "But, my dear Bob," I ventured to remonstrate, "you are years too young
| ISBN-13 | 9781443247658 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1443247650 |
| Weight | 0.27 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.18 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 74 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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