"You are lovelier today than ever, lovelier even than the memories of you that have quickened my dreams--" "All through these years? How sweet-and what utter tosh You know perfectly well your heart hasn't been true to Poll--" "Unfortunately, the damn' thing has. Oh, I'm not pretending I didn't do my level best to forget, tried so hard I thought I had won out. But it only needed this meeting tonight to prove that the others were merely anodynes for a pain that rankled on, as mortal hurts do always, 'way down beneath the influence of the opiate." "Truly, Dobbin, you've lost nothing of your ancient eloquence. That last speech quite carried me back to the days when, more than once, you all but talked me off my feet and into your arms." "Pity I ever stopped talking." "I wonder " "You wonder--?" "Whether it's really a pity you never quite succeeded in talking me into believing I loved you enough to marry you, whether we wouldn't all have been happier, you, Bel, and I." "Then you aren't altogether--" "Hush I haven't said so." "No; but you've had time to find out." "Perhaps...." "And you know your secrets are safe with me." "That's why I'm going to say-what I am going to say." "O Lord now I shall catch it."
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