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I
looked
at
him
amazed
,
and
laughed
.
"
Give
it
way
?
What
do
you
mean
?
Would
you
have
me
tell
humbugs
that
I
know
them
as
such
?
--
and
liars
that
I
discern
their
lies
?
My
dear
fellow
,
society
would
become
too
hot
to
hold
me
!
"
"
It
could
not
be
hotter
--
or
colder
--
than
hell
,
if
you
believed
in
hell
,
which
you
do
not
,
"
--
he
rejoined
,
in
the
same
quiet
voice
--
"
But
I
did
not
assume
that
you
should
say
these
things
straight
out
and
bluntly
,
to
give
offence
.
An
affronting
candour
is
not
nobleness
--
it
is
merely
coarse
.
To
act
nobly
is
better
than
to
speak
.
"
"
And
what
would
you
have
me
do
?
"
I
asked
curiously
.
He
was
silent
for
a
moment
,
and
seemed
to
be
earnestly
,
almost
painfully
considering
--
then
he
answered
--
"
My
advice
will
seem
to
you
singular
,
Geoffrey
--
but
if
you
want
it
,
here
it
is
.
Give
,
as
I
said
,
the
noble
,
and
what
the
world
would
call
the
quixotic
part
of
your
nature
full
way
--
do
not
sacrifice
your
higher
sense
of
what
is
right
and
just
for
the
sake
of
pandering
to
anyone
's
power
or
influence
--
and
--
say
farewell
to
me
!
I
am
no
use
to
you
,
save
to
humour
your
varying
fancies
,
and
introduce
you
to
those
great
--
or
small
--
personages
you
wish
to
know
for
your
own
convenience
or
advantage
--
believe
me
,
it
would
be
much
better
for
you
and
much
more
consoling
at
the
inevitable
hour
of
death
,
if
you
were
to
let
all
this
false
and
frivolous
nonsense
go
,
and
me
with
it
!
Leave
society
to
its
own
fool
's
whirligig
of
distracted
follies
--
put
Royalty
in
its
true
place
,
and
show
it
that
all
its
pomp
,
arrogance
and
glitter
are
worthless
,
and
itself
a
nothing
,
compared
to
the
upright
standing
of
a
brave
soul
in
an
honest
man
--
and
,
as
Christ
said
to
the
rich
ruler
--
'
Sell
half
that
thou
hast
and
give
to
the
poor
.
'
"
I
was
silent
for
a
minute
or
so
out
of
sheer
surprise
,
while
he
watched
me
earnestly
,
his
face
pale
and
expectant
.
A
curious
shock
of
something
like
compunction
startled
my
conscience
,
and
for
a
brief
space
I
was
moved
to
a
vague
regret
--
regret
that
with
all
the
enormous
capability
I
possessed
of
doing
good
to
numbers
of
my
fellow-creatures
with
the
vast
wealth
I
owned
,
I
had
not
attained
to
any
higher
moral
attitude
than
that
represented
by
the
frivolous
folk
who
make
up
what
is
called
the
'
Upper
Ten
'
of
society
.
I
took
the
same
egotistical
pleasure
in
myself
and
my
own
doings
as
any
of
them
--
and
I
was
to
the
full
as
foolishly
conventional
,
smooth-tongued
and
hypocritical
as
they
.
They
acted
their
part
and
I
acted
mine
--
none
of
us
were
ever
our
real
selves
for
a
moment
.
In
very
truth
,
one
of
the
reasons
why
'
fashionable
'
men
and
women
can
not
bear
to
be
alone
is
,
that
a
solitude
in
which
they
are
compelled
to
look
face
to
face
upon
their
secret
selves
becomes
unbearable
because
of
the
burden
they
carry
of
concealed
vice
and
accusing
shame
.
My
emotion
soon
passed
however
,
and
slipping
my
arm
through
Lucio
's
,
I
smiled
,
as
I
answered
--
"
Your
advice
,
my
dear
fellow
,
would
do
credit
to
a
Salvationist
preacher
--
but
it
is
quite
valueless
to
me
,
because
impossible
to
follow
.
To
say
farewell
for
ever
to
you
,
in
the
first
place
,
would
be
to
make
myself
guilty
of
the
blackest
ingratitude
--
in
the
second
instance
,
society
,
with
all
its
ridiculous
humbug
,
is
nevertheless
necessary
for
the
amusement
of
myself
and
my
future
wife
--
Royalty
moreover
,
is
accustomed
to
be
flattered
,
and
we
shall
not
be
hurt
by
joining
in
the
general
inane
chorus
;
--
thirdly
,
if
I
did
as
the
visionary
Jew
suggested
--
--
"
