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She hated him because he was a hypocrite, because he was always placating and temporizing. For instance, he had said to her as she was about to start for the Usshers': "I hope you'll explain to them why I could not come." There had never been the least question of Mr. Almar's coming, and she turned slowly and looked at him as she asked: "You mean that I would not have gone if you had?"
There is only one thing, or perhaps two, to be said for Nancy Almar that she was very handsome and that she was not a hypocrite, no more than a pirate is a hypocrite who comes aboard with his cutlass in his teeth. Mrs. Almar's cutlass was always in her teeth, when it was not in somebody's vitals.
He permitted himself to be ostentatiously led away, upstairs to her little private sitting-room, with its books, and fireplace, and signed photographs, and he pretended not to see Nancy Almar's glance, which was almost a wink, and might have been occasioned by the fact that she herself was at the same moment gently guiding Wickham in the direction of a card-table.
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