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CHAPTER VI.
URSUS AS TUTOR, AND URSUS AS GUARDIAN.
Ursus added,--
"Some of these days I will play them a nasty trick. I will marry them."
Ursus taught Gwynplaine the theory of love. He said to him,--
"
Do you know how the Almighty lights the fire called love? He places
the woman underneath, the devil between, and the man at the top. A
match--that is to say, a look--and behold, it is all on fire."
"A look is unnecessary," answered Gwynplaine, thinking of Dea.
And Ursus replied,--
"Booby! Do souls require mortal eyes to see each other?"
Ursus was a good fellow at times. Gwynplaine, sometimes madly in love
with Dea, became melancholy, and made use of the presence of Ursus as a
guard on himself. One day Ursus said to him,--
"Bah! do not put yourself out. When in love, the cock shows himself."
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