, with a harmless craze for the small lions of literary society; a rather dull man, doing his duty in that state of life in which a merciful Providence had placed him; two nice-looking, healthy children.
4, 7
90. /Td>
I do not know that there was anything about them to excite the attention of the curious.
1а
91. /Td>
I think that I have gathered in the years that intervene between then and now a fair knowledge of mankind, but even if when I first met the Stricklands I had the experience which I have now, I do not believe that I should have judged them differently. /Td>
20б
92. /Td>
But because I have learnt that man is incalculable, I should not at this time of day be so surprised by the news that reached me when in the early autumn I returned to London. /Td>
1а
93. /Td>
It meant that she had heard some scandal about one of her friends, and the instinct of the literary woman was all alert. /Td>
4, 1а
94. /Td>
Not only her face, but her whole body, gave a sense of alacrity. /Td>
19
95. /Td>
I could not do her the injustice of supposing that so trifling a circumstance would have prevented her from
giving them, but she was obstinate. /Td>
1а
96. /Td>
In those days my experience of life at first hand was small, and it excited me to come upon an incident among people I knew of the same sort as I had read in books.
1а
97. /Td>
I confess that time has now accustomed me to incidents of this character among my acquaintance. /Td>
1а
98. /Td>
Strickland was certainly forty, and I thought it disgusting
that a man of his age should concern himself with affairs of the heart.
11, 1а
99. /Td>
With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.
1а, 23
100. /Td>
I would come on a certain day to drink a dish of tea with her.
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