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Do you hear? "One thing in them unquenchable, Subduing, sweet, desirable, To nurse their mutual flame in love!" And you talk about Agrafena! Narkiz chuckled half-contemptuously, half-indifferently. 'What a queer fish it is! he said to himself. But the brigadier had again relapsed into dejection, the rod had dropped from his hands and slipped into the water.
It took ten minutes to fetch Mrs. Bunning from her rooms in the lower regions of the old Moot Hall. She came at last, breathless, and in her working attire, and turned a wondering, good-natured face on the barrister. "Just a little question or two, Mrs. Bunning," he said half-indifferently.
The voice of her daughter answered, half-indifferently, from the next room. "Why don't you come when I call you?" Anger now mingled with fretfulness. The face of a girl in her seventeenth year, on which sat no very amiable expression, was presented at the door. "Is that your opera cloak lying across the chair, and partly on the floor?"
"Then it's a good thing heaven saw to it that you were a woman. The world couldn't have done without its Wielitzska." "Oh, I don't know" half-indifferently, half-wistfully. "It's astonishing how little necessary anyone really is in this world. If I were drowned this afternoon the Imperial management would soon find someone to take my place." "But your friends wouldn't," he said quietly.
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