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Can you not prescribe for him?" Netty smiled gravely. "I hardly know him sufficiently well," she said. "Besides, he requires no sympathy if it is true that he is the heir to a baronetcy and a fortune." Deulin's eyebrows went up into his hat, and he made, for his own satisfaction, a little grimace of surprise. "Ah! is that so?" he inquired. "Who told you that?"
"I should like," she said, "to make you a promise in return. It would give me great satisfaction. Some day you may, perhaps, be glad to remember it." The voices were approaching. It was Deulin's voice, and he seemed to be speaking unnecessarily loud. "I promise you," said Wanda, with unfathomable eyes, "never to marry anybody else."
"My dear Wanda," he said, "for forty years and more I have watched men and women do worse than throw their lives away. And it has quite ceased to affect my appetite." Wanda rose from her chair, and Deulin's face changed again. He shot a sidelong glance at her and bit his lip. His eyes were keen enough now. "Listen!" he said, as he followed her to the door.
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