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CONFIDENCE
Gordon looked at him from head to foot, smiling and shaking his head.
"You are not changed," he said. "You have travelled in unknown lands; you have had, I suppose, all sorts of adventures; but you are the same man I used to know."
"I am sorry for that!"
"You have the same way of representing—of misrepresenting—yourself."
"Well, if I am not changed," said Bernard, "I can ill afford to lose so valuable an art."
"Taking you altogether, I am glad you are the same," Gordon answered simply; "but you must come into my part of the house."
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