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Mr. Treffry said with a sort of laugh: "Near go, eh? You drive? No? That's a pity! Broken most of my bones at the game-nothing like it! " Each felt a kind of admiration for the other that he had not felt before. Presently Mr. Treffry began: "Look here, Mr. Harz, my niece is a slip of a thing, with all a young girl's notions! What have you got to give her, eh? Yourself? That's surely not enough; mind this-six months after marriage we all turn out much the same-a selfish lot! Not to mention this anarchist affair!
"You're not of her blood, nor of her way of life, nor anything-it's taking chances-and-" his hand came down on the young man's knee, "I'm fond of her, you see."