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"
Do
you
really
mean
it
?
"
she
asked
.
"
Mean
it
!
"
echoed
Sibyl
--
"
Why
,
of
course
I
do
!
"
"
How
can
you
doubt
it
!
"
I
exclaimed
.
"
Well
,
you
must
both
forgive
me
for
asking
such
a
question
"
--
said
Mavis
still
smiling
--
"
But
you
see
you
are
now
among
what
are
called
the
'
county
magnates
,
'
and
county
magnates
consider
themselves
infinitely
above
all
authors
!
"
She
laughed
outright
,
and
her
blue
eyes
twinkled
with
fun
.
"
I
think
many
of
them
estimate
writers
of
books
as
some
sort
of
strange
outgrowth
of
humanity
that
is
barely
decent
.
It
is
deliciously
funny
and
always
amuses
me
--
nevertheless
,
among
my
many
faults
,
the
biggest
one
is
,
I
fancy
,
pride
,
and
a
dreadfully
obstinate
spirit
of
independence
.
Now
,
to
tell
you
the
truth
,
I
have
been
asked
by
many
so-called
'
great
'
people
to
their
houses
,
and
when
I
have
gone
,
I
have
generally
been
sorry
for
it
afterwards
.
"
"
Why
?
"
I
asked
--
"
They
honour
themselves
by
inviting
you
.
"
"
Oh
,
I
do
n't
think
they
take
it
in
that
way
at
all
!
"
she
replied
,
shaking
her
fair
head
demurely
--
"
They
fancy
they
have
performed
a
great
act
of
condescension
--
whereas
it
is
really
I
who
condescend
,
for
it
is
very
good
of
me
,
you
know
,
to
leave
the
society
of
the
Pallas
Athene
in
my
study
for
that
of
a
flounced
and
frizzled
lady
of
fashion
!
"
Her
bright
smile
again
irradiated
her
face
and
she
went
on
--
"
Once
I
was
asked
to
luncheon
with
a
certain
baron
and
baroness
who
invited
a
few
guests
"
to
meet
me
,
"
so
they
said
.
I
was
not
introduced
to
more
than
one
or
two
of
these
people
--
the
rest
sat
and
stared
at
me
as
if
I
were
a
new
kind
of
fish
or
fowl
.
Then
the
baron
showed
me
his
house
,
and
told
me
the
prices
of
his
pictures
and
his
china
--
he
was
even
good
enough
to
explain
which
was
Dresden
and
which
was
Delft
ware
,
though
I
believe
,
benighted
author
as
I
am
,
I
could
have
instructed
him
equally
on
these
,
and
other
matters
.
However
I
managed
to
smile
amicably
through
the
whole
programme
,
and
professed
myself
charmed
and
delighted
in
the
usual
way
;
--
but
they
never
asked
me
to
visit
them
again
--
and
,
(
unless
indeed
they
wanted
me
to
be
impressed
with
their
furniture-catalogue
)
I
can
never
make
out
what
I
did
to
be
asked
at
all
,
and
what
I
have
done
never
to
be
asked
any
more
!
"
"
They
must
have
been
parvenus
,
"
--
said
Sibyl
indignantly
--
"
No
well-bred
people
would
have
priced
their
goods
to
you
,
unless
they
happened
to
be
Jews
.
"
Mavis
laughed
--
a
merry
little
laugh
like
a
peal
of
bells
--
then
she
continued
--
"
Well
,
I
will
not
say
who
they
were
--
I
must
keep
something
for
my
'
literary
reminiscences
'
when
I
get
old
!
Then
all
these
people
will
be
named
,
and
go
down
to
posterity
as
Dante
's
enemies
went
down
to
Dante
's
hell
!
I
have
only
told
you
the
incident
just
to
show
you
why
I
asked
you
if
you
meant
it
,
when
you
invited
me
to
visit
you
at
Willowsmere
.
Because
the
baron
and
baroness
I
have
spoken
of
'
gushed
'
over
me
and
my
poor
books
to
such
an
extent
that
you
would
have
fancied
I
was
to
be
for
evermore
one
of
their
dearest
friends
--
and
they
did
n't
mean
it
!
Other
people
I
know
embrace
me
effusively
and
invite
me
to
their
houses
,
and
they
do
n't
mean
it
!
And
when
I
find
out
these
shams
,
I
like
to
make
it
very
clear
on
my
own
side
that
I
do
not
seek
to
be
embraced
or
invited
,
and
that
if
certain
great
folks
deem
it
a
'
favour
'
to
ask
me
to
their
houses
,
I
do
not
so
consider
it
,
but
rather
think
the
'
favour
'
is
entirely
on
my
part
if
I
accept
the
invitation
.
And
I
do
not
say
this
for
my
own
self
at
all
--
self
has
nothing
to
do
with
it
--
but
I
do
say
it
and
strongly
assert
it
for
the
sake
of
the
dignity
of
Literature
as
an
art
and
profession
.
If
a
few
other
authors
would
maintain
this
position
,
we
might
raise
the
standard
of
letters
by
degrees
to
what
it
was
in
the
old
days
of
Scott
and
Byron
.
I
hope
you
do
not
think
me
too
proud
?
"
