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If she takes a shine to
you, make the most of it. She can give you anything she pleases
socially."
"I suppose you have anything you please socially?"
"Pretty much."
"And would you advise me to spend time to get it?"
"Um. I wouldn't give the toss of a copper for it--but I can have it.
It's not being able to have it that's the bad thing."
"So I have found," said Peter gravely.
Lispenard laughed heartily, as he sipped his "Court France." "I wish,"
he said, "that a lot of people, whose lives are given to nothing else,
could have heard you say that, in that tone of voice. You don't spell
Society with a capital, do you?"
"Possibly," said Peter, "if I had more capital, I should use some on
society."
"Good," said Lispenard. "Heavens," he said to himself, "he's made a
joke! Cousin Anneke will never believe it."
He told her the next day, and his statement proved correct.
"I know you made the joke," she said. "He didn't."
"And why shouldn't he joke as well as I?"
"It doesn't suit him.


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