MADAME DE TREYMES
that you can ever have been incapable of any generous interpretation."
She uttered a slight exclamation, which resolved itself into a laugh of self-directed irony.
"If you knew into what language I have always translated life! But that," she broke off, "is not what you are here to learn."
"I think," he returned gravely, "that I am here to learn the measure of Christian charity."
She threw him a new, odd look. "Ah, no—but to show it!" she exclaimed.
"To show it? And to whom?"
She paused for a moment, and then rejoined, instead of answering: "Do you remember that day I talked with you at Fanny's? The day after you came back from Italy?"
He made a motion of assent, and she
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