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A SOCIAL METLOR. 133 longer marks you for its own, and consequently cannot be expected to take care of you.” “T don’t doubt that there is some truth in what you say,” admitted Lee, “but I am still of the opinion that any one of the misfortunes which I have named is worse than poverty. Barrels full of gold cannot cure a heart-ache, nor can hosts of comforters take away disgrace.” “No, but money will soften the rough edges of your grief wonderfully, as you'll find,” returned Peter, “and your friends will try to convince you that what you are mourning over is nota dis- grace, and that you should hold up your head as high as ever, and generally they will succeed, for mighty few of us are impervious to flattery. The touch of soft hands and the sound of sweet voices are sure to affect us all, sooner or later, and, with most of us, it is sooner.” “You seem to speak from,experience,” observed Ray, smiling. Peter touched a match to his cognac-soaked sugar, and watched the blue flame slowly burn itself away. “Yes,” he replied finally, “I do speak feelingly, for I know something about what we’re dis- cussing. Laperimencia docet, Wye handled a EORMICE LOC) SS (EO)