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The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel by David Graham Phillips
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in the frankness that fools--"Also, if I wished to get you, Grant,
or any man, I'd not be silly enough to fancy my character or lack
of it would affect him. That isn't what wins men--is it?"

"You and Josh Craig have a most uncomfortable way of answering
people's thoughts," said Arkwright. "Now, how did you guess I was
thinking mean things about you?"

"For the same reason that Mr. Craig is able to guess what's going
on in your head."

"And that reason is--"

She laughed mockingly. "Because I know you, Grant Arkwright--you,
the meanest-generous man, and the most generous-mean man the Lord
ever permitted. The way to make you generous is to give you a mean
impulse; the way to make you mean is to set you to fearing you're
in danger of being generous."

"There's a bouquet with an asp coiled in it," said Arkwright,
pleased; for with truly human vanity he had accepted the
compliment and had thrown away the criticism. "I'll go bring Josh
Craig." "No, not to-night," said Miss Severence, with a sudden
compression of the lips and a stern, almost stormy contraction of
the brows.

"Please don't do that, Rita," cried Arkwright. "It reminds me of
your grandmother."

The girl's face cleared instantly, and all overt signs of strength
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