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"If you were not what you are," she answered, "I should feel insulted."
"How do you mean—what I am?"
"If you were one of the gentlemen I have been used to all my life. If you were not a queer Bostonian."
"If the gentlemen you have been used to have taught you to expect insults," said Acton, "I am glad I am what I am. You had much better come to Niagara."
"If you wish to 'amuse' me," the Baroness declared, "you need go to no further expense. You amuse me very effectually."
He sat down opposite to her; she still held her fan up to her face, with her eyes only showing above it. There was a
