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." "What struck me most," interrupted the other, "is that she should pick me out for such a long conversation." "That's perhaps because you were the most remarkable of the men there." Renouard shook his head.
"This shot doesn't seem to me to hit the mark," he said calmly.

"Try again." "Don't you believe me?
Oh, you modest creature.

Well, let me assure you that under ordinary circumstances it would have been a good shot.