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What a well-informed chap Herrick is!"
"So Dinah and I were saying," remarked Elizabeth, as they paced
slowly down the terrace. "Why were you so silent?" she continued;
"you know a good deal about these subjects too."
"Who? I! My dear Miss Elizabeth, you are quite mistaken. Ask the
vicar, and he will tell you that I am really a duffer in these
matters. It is a wise child who knows his own father, and I am wise
enough to know my own ignorance. Don't you know," with a smile, "it
is easier to hold one's tongue and listen in an intelligent manner
than flounder about out of one's depth among the billows of
cuneiform inscriptions and the insurmountable precipice of the
Behistun Rock."
"Why do you undervalue yourself so?" returned Elizabeth gently;
"don't you know people take us at our own value? I have got it into
my head that you and Mr. Herrick do not quite take to each other--
woman's eyes are rather sharp, you know." But Mr. Carlyon turned
this off with a laugh.
"Oh, we hit it off all right," he replied; "please don't go and take
fancies in your head.


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