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If he had practically escaped remark, as she pretended, by doing, in the most important particular, what most men do  find the answer to life in patching up an alliance of a sort with a woman no better than himself  how had she escaped it, and how could the alliance, such as it was, since they must suppose it had been more or less noticed, have failed to make her rather positively talked about? IF HE HAD PRACTICALLY ESCAPED REMARK AS SHE PRETENDED BY DOING IN THE MOST IMPORTANT PARTICULAR WHAT MOST MEN DO FIND THE ANSWER TO LIFE IN PATCHING UP AN ALLIANCE OF A SORT WITH A WOMAN NO BETTER THAN HIMSELF HOW HAD SHE ESCAPED IT AND HOW COULD THE ALLIANCE SUCH AS IT WAS SINCE THEY MUST SUPPOSE IT HAD BEEN MORE OR LESS NOTICED HAVE FAILED TO MAKE HER RATHER POSITIVELY TALKED ABOUT
and it not infrequently thus happened that, to show he didn't wish her to have but one sort of food for her mind, he was the cause of her appearing there with him a dozen nights in the month. It even happened that, seeing her home at such times, he occasionally went in with her to finish, as he called it, the evening, and, the better to make his point, sat down to the frugal but always careful little supper that awaited his pleasure. His point was made, he thought, by his not eternally insisting with her on himself; made for instance, at such hours, when it befell that, her piano at hand and each of them familiar with it, they went over passages of the opera together. It chanced to be on one of these occasions, however, that he reminded her of her not having answered a certain question he had put to her during the talk that had taken place between them on her last birthday. "What is it that saves _you_?"--saved her, he meant, from that appearance of variation from the usual human type. TO ACCOMPANY HIM TO THE OPERA AND IT NOT INFREQUENTLY THUS HAPPENED THAT TO SHOW HE DIDN'T WISH HER TO HAVE BUT ONE SORT OF FOOD FOR HER MIND HE WAS THE CAUSE OF HER APPEARING THERE WITH HIM A DOZEN NIGHTS IN THE MONTH IT EVEN HAPPENED THAT SEEING HER HOME AT SUCH TIMES HE OCCASIONALLY WENT IN WITH HER TO FINISH AS HE CALLED IT THE EVENING AND THE BETTER TO MAKE HIS POINT SAT DOWN TO THE FRUGAL BUT ALWAYS CAREFUL LITTLE SUPPER THAT AWAITED HIS PLEASURE HIS POINT WAS MADE HE THOUGHT BY HIS NOT INTERNALLY INSISTING WITH HER ON HIMSELF MADE FOR INSTANCE AT SUCH HOURS WHEN IT BEFELL THAT HER PIANO AT HAND AND EACH OF THEM FAMILIAR WITH IT THEY WENT OVER PASSAGES OF THE OPERA TOGETHER IT CHANCED TO BE ON ONE OF THESE OCCASIONS HOWEVER THAT HE REMINDED HER OF HER NOT HAVING ANSWERED A CERTAIN QUESTION HE HAD PUT TO HER DURING THE TALK THAT HAD TAKEN PLACE BETWEEN THEM ON HER LAST BIRTHDAY WHAT IS IT THAT SAVES YOU SAVED HER HE MEANT FROM THAT APPEARANCE OF VARIATION FROM THE USUAL HUMAN TYPE
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