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Cecilia was not in the library, and McVay, without comment on her absence, turned at once to his book.
"If you won't think me impolite, Holland, I'll go on with my Sterne. Conversation is always a great temptation to me, but I have so little opportunity to read that I feel I ought not to neglect it,-especially as your books are so unusual."