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The
fair
face
of
Lady
Sibyl
haunted
my
mind
--
and
I
felt
,
with
a
no
doubt
foolish
sentimentality
,
that
I
would
rather
keep
my
thoughts
of
her
sacred
,
and
unpolluted
by
contact
with
things
of
lower
tone
.
"
Not
to-night
;
"
--
I
said
--
then
half
smiling
,
I
added
--
"
It
must
be
rather
a
one-sided
affair
for
other
men
to
gamble
with
you
,
Lucio
!
You
can
afford
to
lose
--
and
perhaps
they
ca
n't
.
"
"
If
they
ca
n't
,
they
should
n't
play
,
"
--
he
answered
--
"
A
man
should
at
least
know
his
own
mind
and
his
own
capacity
;
if
he
does
n't
,
he
is
no
man
at
all
.
As
far
as
I
have
learned
by
long
experience
,
those
who
gamble
like
it
,
and
when
they
like
it
,
I
like
it
.
I
'll
take
you
with
me
to-morrow
if
you
care
to
see
the
fun
--
one
or
two
very
eminent
men
are
members
of
the
club
,
though
of
course
they
would
n't
have
it
known
for
worlds
.
You
sha
n't
lose
much
--
I
'll
see
to
that
.
"
"
All
right
--
to-morrow
it
shall
be
!
"
--
I
responded
,
for
I
did
not
wish
to
appear
as
though
I
grudged
losing
a
few
pounds
at
play
--
"
But
to-night
I
think
I
'll
write
some
letters
before
going
to
bed
.
"
"
Yes
--
and
dream
of
Lady
Sibyl
!
"
said
Lucio
laughing
--
"
If
she
fascinates
you
as
much
when
you
see
her
again
on
Thursday
you
had
better
begin
the
siege
!
"
He
waved
his
hand
gaily
,
and
re-entering
his
carriage
,
was
driven
off
at
a
furious
pace
through
the
drifting
fog
and
rain
.
My
publisher
,
John
Morgeson
--
the
estimable
individual
who
had
first
refused
my
book
,
and
who
now
,
moved
by
self-interest
,
was
devoting
his
energies
assiduously
to
the
business
of
launching
it
in
the
most
modern
and
approved
style
,
was
not
like
Shakespeare
's
Cassio
,
strictly
'
an
honourable
man
.
'
Neither
was
he
the
respectable
chief
of
a
long-established
firm
whose
system
of
the
cheating
of
authors
,
mellowed
by
time
,
had
become
almost
sacred
;
--
he
was
a
'
new
'
man
,
with
new
ways
,
and
a
good
stock
of
new
push
and
impudence
.
All
the
same
,
he
was
clever
,
shrewd
and
diplomatic
,
and
for
some
reason
or
other
,
had
secured
the
favour
of
a
certain
portion
of
the
press
,
many
of
the
dailies
and
weeklies
always
giving
special
prominence
to
his
publications
over
the
heads
of
other
far
more
legitimately
dealing
firms
.
He
entered
into
a
partial
explanation
of
his
methods
,
when
,
on
the
morning
after
my
first
meeting
with
the
Earl
of
Elton
and
his
daughter
,
I
called
upon
him
to
inquire
how
things
were
going
with
regard
to
my
book
.
"
We
shall
publish
next
week
,
"
--
he
said
,
rubbing
his
hands
complacently
,
and
addressing
me
with
all
the
deference
due
to
my
banking
account
--
"
And
as
you
do
n't
mind
what
you
spend
,
I
'll
tell
you
just
what
I
propose
to
do
.
I
intend
to
write
out
a
mystifying
paragraph
of
about
some
seventy
lines
or
so
,
describing
the
book
in
a
vague
sort
of
way
as
'
likely
to
create
a
new
era
of
thought
'
--
or
,
'
ere
long
everybody
who
is
anybody
will
be
compelled
to
read
this
remarkable
work
,
'
--
or
'
as
something
that
must
be
welcome
to
all
who
would
understand
the
drift
of
one
of
the
most
delicate
and
burning
questions
of
the
time
.
'
These
are
all
stock
phrases
,
used
over
and
over
again
by
the
reviewers
--
there
's
no
copyright
in
them
.
And
the
last
one
always
'
tells
'
wonderfully
,
considering
how
old
it
is
,
and
how
often
it
has
been
made
to
do
duty
,
because
any
allusion
to
a
'
delicate
and
burning
question
'
makes
a
number
of
people
think
the
novel
must
be
improper
,
and
they
send
for
it
at
once
!
"
He
chuckled
at
his
own
perspicuity
,
and
I
sat
silent
,
studying
him
with
much
inward
amusement
.
This
man
on
whose
decision
I
had
humbly
and
anxiously
waited
not
so
many
weeks
ago
was
now
my
paid
tool
--
ready
to
obey
me
to
any
possible
extent
for
so
much
cash
--
and
I
listened
to
him
indulgently
while
he
went
on
unravelling
his
schemes
for
the
gratification
of
my
vanity
,
and
the
pocketing
of
his
extras
.
