Out of the Past — page 121: what you’re looking at

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118 Out of the Past. “Nobility fiddlesticks.” Jack got up to look at the sea as the rain fell on it. ‘““‘No—but really,” Rose insisted. “Really ; I believe nobility is born in a feHow and very few get a chance at the plum.” ‘Paris is hurting you,” Rose said seriously. “It might in time,’ he admitted, flushing. “It’s a bad place for a man’s morals if they’re not bred in the bone.” Rose laid down her work to examine him again. As she resumed it she said, with eyes down: “T think you have made a mistake.”’ “How P” “You should choose some way of life that does not set you apart from the world.” ‘Now, Rosey,” he remonstrated, “don’t take a man too seriously when he’s had a bad breakfast. My calling is the only thing in life I can see worth doing. It is the only one I would sacrifice a night’s sleep for. You mustn’t think I have done myself up yet. You see, | tried the Little Minister to a New England Thrums and— well—I didn’t succeed. There wasn’t any Babby.” 2 see. “Now, if you had been there——” “Jack! You sinner.” ECONRNICOOOKS. COM