A Struggle for a Ring — page 62: what you’re looking at

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58 “KEEP MY NAME AND RANK A SECRET.” fear of shocking you by a vulgar expression, I should say that we lived in a scramble.” He shuddered at the words, then said: ‘* But even in a scramble, as you express it, Ailie, it is not needful to put one’s knife in one’s mouth.” ‘‘No,” replied his young wife; ‘‘but you have no idea, Vivian, how completely the fact of having to work very hard for your dinner makes you indifferent over the etiquette of eating it.” And while he ate some of the finest peaches that ever grew in sunny France, Lord Carsdale meditated on the words. CHAPTER VIII. ‘SxREP MY NAME AND RANK A SECRET.” They were standing together in one of the galleries of the Louvre, and Lord Carsdale was looking with wonder at his wife. ‘‘T believe,” he said, with unfeigned admiration, ‘that you know the name of every painter, and of ap picture painted. I had no idea that you were soglever.” ‘‘T am not very clever,” replied Ailie; ‘but they thought so much of pictures at Heisengen.” | Lord Carsdale laughed. ‘‘T begin to find out one thing, Ailie,” he said. <I may quote some well-known words: ‘ Your virtues are the virtues of Heisengen, your faults are your own.’” _ ‘fT have such a fashion of speaking the exact truth,” S. m comicboo