"Good-night again, sir. There is no debt, benefit, burden,
obligation, in the case."
"I knew," he continued, "you would do me good in some way, at some
time; -- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their
expression and smile did not" -- (again he stopped) -- "did not"
(he proceeded hastily) "strike delight to my very inmost heart so
for nothing. People talk of natural sympathies; I have heard of
good genii: there are grains of truth in the wildest fable. My
cherished preserver, goodnight!"
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