Out of the Past — page 118: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER VIII. Cynic: ‘‘Heed the ways of the living and forget the dead.” “You have seen my father?” asked Rose of the young clergyman from Peoria, in the afternoon following the musicale at M. Vignaud’s hotel. “It was almost as much for that reason as for the pleas- ure of seeing you that I looked you up at the Legation. I thought you would like to know that you need not——” “Concern myself about him?’ “Not quite that.” “Then he is happy?” “And astonishingly successful.” “You mean in love as well as in politics.” Young Danforth looked uncomfortable. “Ts she very beautiful ?” “Rather earthy.” “Then where is the success?” “Politics sink a great deal of money.” “And she has it.” After a pause: “Has she anything else?” CONMICOOOKS.: