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He saw
her life a series of small subterfuges, of petty indulgences, of
little plots against himself, all directed toward securing Graham
immunity - from trouble at school, from debt, from his own authority.
A wave of unreasoning anger surged over him, but with it there was
pity, too; pity for the narrowness of her life and her mind, pity
for her very selfishness. And for the first time in his life he
felt a shamefaced pity for himself. He shook himself violently.
When a man got sorry for himself -


CHAPTER XX
Rudolph Klein had not for a moment believed Anna's story about the
watch, and on the day after he discovered it on her wrist he
verified his suspicions. During his noon hour he went up-town and,
with the confident swagger of a certain type of man who feels
himself out of place, entered the jeweler's shop in question.
He had to wait for some little time, and he spent it in surveying
contemptuously the contents of the show-cases. That even his
wildest estimate fell far short of their value he did not suspect,
but his lips curled.


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