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"You have been very—a—very moderate. Don't you think one always sees that in a man's face?"
"You see more in a man's face than I should think of looking for," said Mr. Wentworth coldly.
The Baroness rattled her fan and gave her brilliant laugh. "It is a risk to look so close!" she exclaimed. "My uncle has some peccadilloes on his conscience." Mr. Wentworth looked at her, painfully at a loss; and in so far as the signs of a pure and abstinent life were visible in his face they were then probably peculiarly manifest. "You are a beau vieillard, dear uncle," said Madame Münster, smiling with her foreign eyes.
