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Say that you are sorry, and it shall be forgotten." When a man has kissed a woman it goes against the grain with him to say the very next moment that he is sorry for what he has done.  It is as much as to declare that the kiss had not answered his expectation.  Mr Broune could not do this, and perhaps Lady Carbury did not quite expect it.  "You know that for world I would not offend you," he said.  This sufficed.  Lady Carbury again looked into his eyes, and a promise was given that the articles should be printed—and with generous remuneration.
The Way We Live Now
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