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CHAPTER 32.
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There is a curious anomaly about the way in which a self-confidence, impervious1 to the stabs of ill-fortune, may be paralyzed in a moment by the little prick2 of a snub irresponsible. Now, I would not go so far as to say that the sang-froid shown by Mr. Tuke over his virtual dismissal by Miss Royston represented the real state of his feelings; or that he did not find his appetite for a certain fruit stimulated3 by his disappointment of it. But, without doubt, the sting that most rankled4 for the moment in his vanity was that tart5 little rebuke6 administered to him by the aristocratic carline in the theatre-lobby. It was absurd, it was inexplicable—but so it was. His sense of injury in the greater matter was quite overcrowded by his feeling of humiliation7 in the lesser8. That was a little snake, but it swallowed all the rest—so elastic9 is a proud stomach.
Perhaps it was all very beneficial to him. No doubt it was too much his way to affect a good-humoured tolerance10 of destiny; to repudiate11 responsibility, in speech or act, on the strength of a certain genial12 creed13 of
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profanation
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geniality
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inquisitiveness
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