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The self-detraction seemed delicate, and the unexpectedness of the reply amused her. "That is perhaps a modest thing to say, Mr. Fenton," she responded, "but the truth must be if you'll pardon my saying anything so personal that you are very sympathetic."
Fragility, appearance, nothingness. If it were for our powers of self-detraction and forgetfulness, all the fairy world which surrounds and draws us would seem to us but a broken spectre in the darkness, an empty appearance, a fleeting hallucination. Appeared disappeared there is the whole history of a man, or of a world, or of an infusoria. Time is the supreme illusion.
The conviction of our guilt is painful to those that love us: wantonly and needlessly to give this pain is very perverse and unjustifiable. If a contrary deportment argue vanity, self-detraction seems to be the offspring of pride. Thou art the strangest of men, Henry. Thy whole conduct with regard to me has been a tissue of self-upbraidings.
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