"What have you heard?"
"I have heard that you have ways of making the worse appear the better reason-that you flatter."
The glow deepened in her face and her eyes flashed.
"And," he went on, lightly, "why should not one try to make the world pleasanter by making it more satisfied with itself? Isn't that the part of a public benefactor?"
"You are laughing at me," she cried.
"You-are-despising me."
"No, indeed," he answered, with real earnestness. "You misunderstand me.
Isn't it only fair to give back in pleasant speeches the admiration and adulation that the world gives you? There would be a certain dishonesty in taking all and giving nothing."
"You-you-are mocking me," she gasped, rising, as if to fly, and then sinking back.
"No," he answered, "only I object to being mocked myself.
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