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You don't seem to me to enjoy . . . Do you mind my saying this?" he asked, pausing.
"Please go on," said the girl, earnestly.
"You seem to me very well placed, for enjoying. You have money and liberty and what is called in Europe a 'position.' But you take a painful view of life, as one may say."
"One ought to think it bright and charming and delightful, eh?" asked Gertrude.
"I should say so—if one can. It is true it all depends upon that," Felix added.
"You know there is a great deal of misery in the world," said his model.
"I have seen a little of it," the young
