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Believe it or not, as you like. You see, I am out of things now." "You need never be out of things unless you choose." "Oh, the world goes on and leaves one behind. Don't you remember my telling you and Beryl once that I was an Edwardian?" "If that means un-modern I think I prefer it to modernity. I think perhaps I have an old-fashioned soul." He was smiling now.
But it needs the presence of twenty centuries to bring the fact of man's individual insignificance home to most of us." "She is clever," thought Dartmouth, as he dismissed his brougham a little later and walked home alone. "Very un-modern and most reprehensibly unconventional, in so much as she thinks, and develops her mental muscles; but very charming, notwithstanding.
To any one with a discerning eye this would have been more or less apparent, but to me, who had known her during all the twenty-two years of her life and was familiar with the ins and outs of her primitive, utterly un-modern type, it was strikingly clear. To see her there made it impossible to imagine her again in civilisation. I lost all recollection of how she looked in a town.
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