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One swift glance sufficed for Charlie, and his eyes came back to the woman's smiling face. Her good looks were undoubted, but to him they were of an almost celestial order. There was no creature in the whole wide world to compare with her. His eyes devoured every detail of her expression, of her personality, with the hungry greed of a soul-starved man.
But rich England has only a few dozen such places in all at command and these are usually allotted with a cynical contempt for merit; miserable anarchic England, soul-starved amid its creature comforts, proving now by way of example to helots that man cannot live by bread alone: England and Oscar Wilde! the "Black Country" and "the professor of aesthetics" a mad world, my masters!
But rich England has only a few dozen such places in all at command and these are usually allotted with a cynical contempt for merit; miserable anarchic England, soul-starved amid its creature comforts, proving now by way of example to helots that man cannot live by bread alone: England and Oscar Wilde! the "Black Country" and "the professor of æsthetics" a mad world, my masters!
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