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"I see it all now." A brilliant inspiration had suddenly obscured her
humour. She sat down suddenly, and he sat down too. "You did it,"
she said, "because you wanted to help me. And you thought I was too
Conventional to take help from one I might think my social inferior."
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That was partly it," said Mr. Hoopdriver.
How you misunderstood me!" she said.
You don't mind?"
It was noble of you. But I am sorry," she said, "you should think me
likely to be ashamed of you because you follow a decent trade."
"I didn't know at first, you see," said Mr. Hoopdriver.
And he submitted meekly to a restoration of his self-respect. He was
as useful a citizen as could be,--it was proposed and carried,--and
his lying was of the noblest. And so the breakfast concluded much more
happily than his brightest expectation, and they rode out of ruddy
little Blandford as though no shadow of any sort had come between them.
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