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cate a matter, I--I-- [_He maunders._ _Hyp._ MAUD, why _will_ you be so headstrong! (_In a rapid whisper._) Can't you see ... can't you _guess_?... _Maud._ I guess I want to make sure Mr. CULCHARD isn't that kind of magnanimous man himself. I shouldn't want him to renounce _me_! _Hyp._ MAUD! You might at _least_ wait until Mr. CULCHARD has-- _Maud._ Oh, but he _did_--weeks ago, at Bingen. And at Lugano, too, the other day, he spoke out tolerable plain. I guess he didn't wish any secret made about it--_did_ you, Mr. CULCHARD? _Culch._ I--ah--this conversation is rather ... If you'll excuse me-- [_Escapes with as much dignity as he can command._ _Maud._ Well, my dear,--that's the sort of self-denying hairpin _he_ is! What do you think of him _now_? _Hyp._ I do not think so highly of him, I confess. His renunciation was evidently less prompted by consideration for his friend than by a recollection--tardy enough, I am afraid--of the duty which bound him to _you_, dearest. But if you had seen and heard him, as I did, you would not have doubted the _reality_ of the sacrifice, whatever the true reason may have been. For myself, I am conscious of neither anger nor sorrow--my heart, as I told you, was never really affected. But what must it be to _you_, darling! _Maud._ Well, I believe I'm more amused than anything. _Hyp._ Amused! But surely you don't mean to have anything more to do with him? _Maud._ My dear girl, I intend to have considerable more to do with him before I'm through. He's under vow for _me_ now, anyway, and I don't mean he should forget it, either. He's my monkey, and he's got to jump around pretty lively, at the end of a tolerable short chain, too. And I guess, if it comes to renouncing, all the magnanimity's going to be on _my_ side this time! _IN AN AVENUE._ _Culch._ (_to himself, as he walks hurriedly on_). I only saved myself in time. I don't _think_ MAUD noticed anything--she couldn't nave been so innocent and indifferent if she had.... And HYPATIA won't enlighten her any further now--after what she knows. It's rather a relief that she _does_ know.... She took it very well, poor girl--_very_ well. I expect she is really beginning to put up with PODBURY--I'm sure I _hope_ so, sincerely! * * * * * OUR BOOKING-OFFICE. [Illustration] "I dearly love reading a ghost-story," quoth the Baron, "when, as the song says, 'The lights are low, And the
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