greville fane-第5部分
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so much for an incident; and had so much promised him if he would
invent a new crime。
〃He HAS invented one;〃 I said; 〃and he's paid every day of his life。〃
〃What is it?〃 she asked; looking hard at the picture of the year;
〃Baby's Tub;〃 near which we happened to be standing。
I hesitated a moment。 〃I myself will write a little story about it;
and then you'll see。〃
But she never saw; she had never seen anything; and she passed away
with her fine blindness unimpaired。 Her son published every scrap of
scribbled paper that could be extracted from her table…drawers; and
his sister quarrelled with him mortally about the proceeds; which
showed that she only wanted a pretext; for they cannot have been
great。 I don't know what Leolin lives upon; unless it be on a queer
lady many years older than himself; whom he lately married。 The last
time I met him he said to me with his infuriating smile: 〃Don't you
think we can go a little further stilljust a little?〃 HE really
goes too far。
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