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LaugHING Boy 213 . from which unease, like an infection, flowed ยข through his system. He did not realize that he was studying his | ife critically, as one might an opponent. Once or twice, to his own surprise, he caught himself

  1. 8 :bout to become annoyed with her over little or

| cothing; once or twice, away from her, building Zp a quite unreasonable sense of wrong. Then he t would be disgusted with himself, and alarmed. i The process was really natural enough; being pro- wundly dissatisfied with something in her which i 12 refused to recognize, the feeling sought to give B ==clf outlet by picking causes of annoyance ~waich could be admitted. . She had always foreseen a period of difficulty id settling down, and was prepared to adapt

2emself to it, but now she did not know what w as

| 3ccded. She thought she was sophisticated, she Sought she knew all about men, and all about | 2ecself. She thought she had penetrated to the | x-mate truth. She knew only a little of life, not 2 of herself, and of men there was a half which ee knew through and through, and a half which a= was just beginning to discover. She wondered id the time had come at last to give up her L1=rican and go North. But this was a bad year Ir them; wool, and hence the sheep which they zld have to buy, had risen, while horses, 4

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