Richard Forrest, Bachelor — page 63: what you’re looking at

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54 , THE YOUNG WIDOW. ever live who was worth losing one’s beauty for? That tiresome Rose Delmar! What a row she did kick up with me, I declare, but I flatter myself I settled her nicely. Just as if I had ‘aided and abetted’ Florence’s elopement with a low-down singing master, or could whistle and bring her back! People are such fools, and they expect so much of others! Pshaw! let them go, and their troubles with them! I am sympathetic, oh, yes, none more so, indeed, at the proper time, but that isn’t always. Not by any means. Amusez vous bien, 18 my motto, and the world will al- ways find me ready to laugh with it, but to weep—bah! one looks so ugly with one’s face drawn up into a knot and one’s nose crimson! besides, it is a bore, and life is much, much too short to drone away.”’ _™ COMME OO|KS46€O) -_=— “*