I Forbid the Banns! — page 107: what you’re looking at

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CONCERNING PROPOSITIONS, 97 ‘“ My dear friend,” said Southcote, “any opinion that you may pronounce regarding poker would be thoroughly satis- factory to me.” By this Mr. Southcote wished it to be understood that he estimated at a very low value any opinion that Captain Waring might be led to pronounce on anothersubject. But however this might be, no sooner had Charlton gone on the bridge with a cigar after dinner than Cyril said to him cas- ually : ‘‘ By the way, Charlton, do you remember expressing the Opinion, when we were conversing on the subject of the phenomenon of love,that the process of mutual attraction was gradual, not sudden?”’ ‘‘J remember perfectly well,” said Charlton. ‘And you recollect, perhaps, that I expressed my belief in the sudden process ?” Porertectly. ‘‘ Have you given any thought to the subject in the mean- time, may I ask ?”’ “Thought ? no—I have thought nothing about it.” “Then you hold your opinion still ?”’ “ Anything but that,” said Charlton. _ “What? But you said you had given the subject no thought ?” ‘“ And do you fancy that any human being ever came to a satisfactory conclusion on such asubject by thinking about it? Do you really fancy that the phenomenon, as you call it, is an intellectual process ?”’ ‘Certainly Ido not. The first symptom of the disease has often seemed to me to be a paralysis of the intellect.” “Then why do you assume that the conclusion I have come to is the result of thought? You should be ashamed of yourself.”’ Charlton seated himself and felt in his pockets for his match box. CONNIECLIOOKS e(0)