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"He can't bear to do it, poor man! " Lady Sand-gate ruefully remarked to her remaining guest after Lord John had, under extreme pressure, dashed out to Bond Street.
"I dare say not! " -- Lord Theign, flushed with the felicity of self-expression, made little of that. "But he goes too far, you see, and it clears the air -- pouah! Now therefore" -- and he glanced at the clock -- "I must go to Kitty."