I Forbid the Banns! — page 71: what you’re looking at

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ON THE HUMAN SOUL. 61 ' And the market value of the transaction he had roughly estimated at one sovereign. Mr. Cyril Southcote sat a considerable way up the table. It has been stated that, on Charlton’s appearing in the saloon after the other passengers were seated, Cyril South- cote had regarded him as the most guileless of men. Inthe course of the next five minutes he considered that he had good reason for revising his impression of Charlton. He regarded him as the most fortunate of men; and being well aware that good fortune and guilelessness are rarely found in association, he had had no difficulty in pronouncing Charlton extremely adroit—so adroit as to deceive, if it were possible, even the very elect. 3 Southcote considered himself the very elect. As for Julian Charlton, he did not venture to glance down the table—not even as far down as three seats to his right, where Marian Travers was sitting—with a view of discover- ing what was the prevailing expression in the faces of the passengers when they perceived that he had changed—had been, as he put it, forced out of his accustomed place. He quietly explained to his neighbor, Miss Lancaster, that the laws of the Medes and Persians might be considered types of mutability compared with the cabin code of the Carnar- von Castle. The places at the tables were allotted strictly in the order of the booking of the passengers, he explained, so that she and her aunt would naturally have found them- selves at the foot of the table if Robinson, the chief steward, had not taken upon him to assume that he, Charlton, would not object to be moved down to the last place. “It is not a position of indignity, that at the foot of the table, is it, Mr. Charlton ? so that you really need not have been moved. Neither my aunt nor I would have objected in the least to the seat you are in.” “Of course not,’ said he. ‘‘ But, as no doubt you have noticed aboard the P. and O. steamers when on your way CONNIECLOOOKS (c()