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CHAPTER XV--A DISCOURSE ON MANNERS
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It is as easy as rolling off a log.

You ought to see the really heroic things I could do if they ever came my way.

But this little thing, this little episode--really, don't you know, I fail to see anything in it remarkable or unusual.' As for me, if I went up in a powder explosion, or saved a hundred lives, I'd want all my friends to hear about it, and their friends as well.

I'd be prouder than Lucifer over the affair.

Confess, Mr.Sheldon, don't you feel proud down inside when you've done something daring or courageous ?" Sheldon nodded.
"Then," she pressed home the point, "isn't disguising that pride under a mask of careless indifference equivalent to telling a lie ?" "Yes, it is," he admitted.


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