CHAPTER II
For this, properly speaking wonderful, reason I was the only one of
the company who could listen without constraint to the unbidden
guest with that fine head of white hair, so beautifully kept, so
magnificently waved, so artistically arranged that respect could
not be felt for it any more than for a very expensive wig in the
window of a hair-dresser. In fact, I had an inclination to smile
at it. This proves how unconstrained I felt. My mind was
perfectly at liberty; and so of all the eyes in that room mine was
the only pair able to look about in easy freedom. All the other
listeners' eyes were cast down, including Mills' eyes, but that I
am sure was only because of his perfect and delicate sympathy. He
could not have been concerned otherwise.
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