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She returned the letter to its envelope, and after looking up Gaston on the time-table fell into a heart-stirring reverie, with unseeing eyes fixed on the restful blackness of the night rushing rearward past the car windows. "He has forgotten," she said, with a little lip-curl of disappointment.
Ardea confessed ignorance, and he went on, with a lip-curl of contempt. "Well, the whole chapter is about being careful for the weak brother. The Romans used to eat the flesh of the animals offered in the sacrifices to the gods, and some of the Christian Romans didn't seem to be strong enough or sensible enough to eat it as just plain, every-day meat. They tangled it up with the idol worship.
The clerk looked afar over my head. "Some guest who already has his room and had gone to fetch his grips." Then, with the contemptuous lip-curl that I had encountered too often not to recognize it at sight: "Who are you, anyway? a plain-clothes man looking for crooks? You'll not find them in the Marlborough. We don't keep that kind of a house."
"Oh, yes a fine thing; the wife betray the husband!" This with another lip-curl of scorn. "I have some shreds and patches of pride left, sir, if you have not." "Then free me of my obligation to you and let me do it myself. I am well enough to hang." "And so make me a consenting accomplice? Truly, as I have said before, you have a most knightly soul, Captain Ireton."
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