“Irony?” He paused a moment, a rueful half-smile on his lips. “I…I said things last night that…well, I did mean them, but I said them more harshly than was intended—about your family. For whatever reservations I have about your relations,” he said in a tone that was almost teasing, “I must own that I have never feared, even slightly, that any of them would thrash me.”
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