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"Now, it seems to me that if she has any sense it is one of superiority.
She treated me like a brick under her feet."
For a minute Corinna was silent. The smile on her lips had grown
tenderly humorous; and there was a softness in her eyes which made him
sorry that he had not known her when he was a child. "Do you know what
she told me to-day?" she said. "She studies a page of the dictionary
every morning, and she tries to remember and practise all day the new
words that she learns. She is now in the letter M."
A peal of merriment interrupted her. "That explains it!" exclaimed
Stephen with unaffected delight, "maneuver--misinformation--multitude--"
"So she has practised on you too?"
"Oh, they all practise on me," he retorted. "It is what I was made for."

"Well, as long as it is only words, you are safe, I suppose."
He denied this with a gesture. "It is everything you can possibly
practise with--from puddings to pigeons."
"My poor dear, so you have been eating Margaret's puddings.


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