Possibly there may be some immunity in inoculation.
It is Lothario who is always self-possessed and does and says the
right thing, while poor honest Coelebs becomes ridiculous with genuine
emotion.
He rejoined his lawyer in no very gracious mood. The chambers occupied
by Mr. Harlowe were in the basement of a private dwelling once occupied
and made historic by an Honorable Somebody, who, however, was remembered
only by the landlord and the last tenant. There were various shelves
in the walls divided into compartments, sarcastically known as "pigeon
holes," in which the dove of peace had never rested, but which still
perpetuated, in their legends, the feuds and animosities of suitors now
but common dust together. There was a portrait, apparently of a cherub,
which on nearer inspection turned out to be a famous English Lord
Chancellor in his flowing wig.
There were books with dreary, unenlivening titles,--egotistic always,
as recording Smith's opinions on this, and Jones's commentaries on
that.
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