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What had he done, after all, to need defence and explanation? Both Dresham and Flamel had, in his hearing, declared the publication of the letters to be not only justifiable but obligatory; and if the disinterestedness of Flamel's verdict might be questioned, Dresham's at least represented the impartial view of the man of letters.
"I haven't been in town long enough to know anything," said Glennard, taking the cup his wife handed him. "Who has been reading what?" "That lovely girl from the South Georgie Georgie what's her name Mrs. Dresham's protegee unless she's YOURS, Mr. Dresham! Why, the big ball-room was PACKED, and all the women were crying like idiots it was the most harrowing thing I ever heard "
Dresham was a lady who had rescued herself from social obscurity by assuming the role of her husband's exponent and interpreter; and Dresham's leisure being devoted to the cultivation of remarkable women, his wife's attitude committed her to the public celebration of their remarkableness. For the conceivable tedium of this duty, Mrs.
Armiger, the latest embodiment of Dresham's instinct for the remarkable, was an innocent beauty who for years had distilled dulness among a set of people now self-condemned by their inability to appreciate her. Under Dresham's tutelage she had developed into a "thoughtful woman," who read his leaders in the Radiator and bought the books he recommended.
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