I Forbid the Banns! — page 23: what you’re looking at

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ON THE CUTTING OF CAMEOS. 15 as a matter of fact his powers were very limited, she knew that she did well to be angry. She felt, however, that she would be able by her future bearing to prove to Mr. Southcote that he was not quite so clever as he fancied himself. (She actually believed that she could make a man be satisfied that he was less clever than he fancied himself to be.) The extraordinary amount of attention which she was paying to the novel that lay on her knees should, she felt, go far to convince Mr. South- cote that he had given himself credit for much more clever- ness than he possessed. And all this time Mr. Southcote was watching her, but without giving the smallest indication of so doing. ‘The result of his observation, lasting over twenty minutes, was to convince him that the author she had chosen was not altogether enthralling. He noticed that she did not turn over a page during this space of time. He felt that up to the present he had never done full justice to his own cleverness. He felt that he was really far cleverer than he had ever fancied he was. For having been the means of evoking so agreeable a reflection, he admired Miss Travers more than he had ever done. He had quite forgiven her for having tried to appear clever at his expense. . CORNIECLOOKS (e(6)