Cashel Byron's Profession by George Bernard Shaw
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partly because you would only make matters worse; chiefly because he
does not deserve it. But you must make this speech to Mrs. Hoskyn when you are going: 'I am very sorry I forgot myself'--" "Sounds like Shakespeare, doesn't it?" observed Cashel. "Ah! the test has found you out; you are only acting after all. But that does not alter my opinion that you should apologize." "All right. I don't know what you mean by testing and acting; and I only hope you know yourself. But no matter; I'll apologize; a man like me can afford to. I'll apologize to your cousin, too, if you like." "I do not like. But what has that to do with it? I suggest these things, as you must be aware, for your own sake and not for mine." "As for my own, I don't care twopence: I do it all for you. I don't even ask whether there is anything between you and him." "Would you like to know?" said Lydia, deliberately, after a pause of astonishment. "Do you mean to say you'll tell me?" he exclaimed. "If you do, I'll say you're as good as gold." "Certainly I will tell you. There is an old friendship and cousinship between us; but we are not engaged, nor at all likely to be. I tell you so because, if I avoided the question, you would draw the opposite and false conclusion." |
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