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By: Hocking, Joseph

Book Excerptfrump, and because I love hunting and dancing, that I don't admire cleverness.""It's not that at all, Nancy. I know you admire clever people. What I meant was," and he stammered painfully, "that--that it's--a matter of indifference to you whether I, personally, am dull or clever.""What reason have you for saying that?""Hundreds," replied Bob. "That is--you see, you are always laughing at my desire to be 'a fusty bookworm, ' as you call it, and--and, well, all that sort of thing.""Does that prove indifference?" she replied, and Bob thought he noted a tremor in her voice."You know it does," he went on, hating himself for talking in such a fashion, and yet unable to control his words. "Only yesterday, when we were talking together at tea, and some one said that I should die an old bachelor, you said that I was far more likely to die an old maid. Then, although you saw you wounded me, you went off with Captain Trevanion.""Hadn't you, just before, refused to stay the

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08GV97T22
• ISBN13: 9798674731764
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"