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THE girl's words had a strange effect on Faunce. They seemed to strike like a goad into his flesh. He sprang to his feet and began to pace the room with his head down. Fanny Price followed him with an astonished gaze, but she was too much concerned with her own emotion, her own folly in caring at all, to attempt to analyze his moods. It was enough for her that he loved Diane. She did not want to go beyond that, for it utterly crushed her hopes.
"Nothing I've ever done is magnificent! " he declared in a choked voice. "I'm not such a bounder as to let you think it. I would have tried as hard as Overton, I know I should, if I hadn't been sure that she -- she loved him!"