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"Well, Mr. Rayburn," said Vane, "this is a rather curious sort of introduction, but I see that you are -- I mean that I am quite satisfied that you must have some very good reason for refusing to shake hands with me. You are the first man who has ever done so, and as you have come here as my father's guest, I may presume that it is not a personal objection."
Vane could not help speaking formally; there was a strangeness about the situation which forced him to do so.