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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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