27/34 Oh, very! Disgustingly vain, in fact. If I were unconscious of it, I'd be unbearable, but--it amuses me as much as it amuses others, and that takes the curse off of it. I am delighted at some of my own antics. I love to swagger and I adore an audience, but to be laughed at by others would kill me. Ridicule! Scorn! I'm insensible to anything except those." "You're a queer man." Gray's gaze became fixed; there was a peculiar light--almost a glitter--in his eyes; he talked on as if voicing some engrossing thought. |