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'A forbidding sort of man; a man who could not be trifled with; and yet, perhaps, a man who longed to be trifled with, just now and then?'

'But, as it turned out, Isabel suffered no worse fate than is common to most liars; namely, the loss of her audience through the sheer dullness of her fabrications.'

'"So perhaps none of it is a coincidence, really," she concluded, with the tentative optimism of the non-mathematical pupil who nevertheless knows when a sum looks right.'

'A sister can never really show you a new expression on her face.'