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He informed me that it was perfectly natural for me to think it; and on my replying that persons ought to know themselves best: 'At my age, perhaps, he said, and added, 'I cannot speak very confidently of my knowledge of myself. 'Then you make us out to be nothing better than puppets, Mr. Pollingray. 'If we have missed an early apprenticeship to the habit of self-command, ma filleule.
He informed me that it was perfectly natural for me to think it; and on my replying that persons ought to know themselves best: 'At my age, perhaps, he said, and added, 'I cannot speak very confidently of my knowledge of myself. 'Then you make us out to be nothing better than puppets, Mr. Pollingray. 'If we have missed an early apprenticeship to the habit of self-command, ma filleule.
My principal attraction towards this group of guests lay, I remember, in one figure that of a handsome young girl whom I had seen before as a visitor at Madame Beck's, and of whom I had been vaguely told that she was a "filleule," or god-daughter, of M. Emanuel's, and that between her mother, or aunt, or some other female relation of hers, and the Professor, had existed of old a special friendship.
For, with my thorough knowledge of myself, I, were I like either one of them, should not have offered myself to the mercy of a young woman, or of the world. Nor, as I am and know myself to be, would I offer myself to the mercy of Alice Amble. When my filleule first drove into Dayton she had some singularly audacious ideas of her own.
Tamara had several photographs of the Princess Ardácheff. "Welcome, ma filleule," that lady cried, while she shook her hand. "After all these years I can have you in my house." They said all sorts of mutually agreeable things on their way thither, and they looked at each other shyly. "She is not beautiful," ran the Princess' comments.
For, with my thorough knowledge of myself, I, were I like either one of them, should not have offered myself to the mercy of a young woman, or of the world. Nor, as I am and know myself to be, would I offer myself to the mercy of Alice Amble. When my filleule first drove into Dayton she had some singularly audacious ideas of her own.
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