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'Certainly.'
'Certainly;--certainly; certainly,' he said, re-echoing her word.
'But then, Duke, one has to be so sure what duty requires. In many
matters this is easy enough, and the only difficulty comes from
temptation. There are cases in which it is hard to know.'
'Is this one of them?'
'I think so.'
'Then the maiden should--in any class of life--be allowed to take
the man that just suits her eye?' As he said this his mind was
intent on his Glencora and on Burgo Fitzgerald.
'I have not said so. A man may be bad, vicious, a spendthrift,--
eaten up by bad habits.' Then he frowned, thinking that she also
had her mind intent on his Glencora and on that Burgo Fitzgerald,
and being most unwilling to have the difference between Burgo and
Frank Tregear pointed out to him. 'Nor have I said,' she
continued, 'that even were none of these faults apparent in the
character of a suitor, the lady should in all cases be advised to
accept a young man because he has made himself agreeable to her.
There may be discrepancies.'
'There are,' said he, still with a low voice, but with infinite
energy,--'insurmountable discrepancies.
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