IN THE ALPS - The Card, A Story Of Adventure In The Five Towns

Page 131 of 141

Denry had an embryo of a conscience somewhere, and Nellie's was fully developed.

"Well," said Denry, in reply to Nellie's conscience, "it serves him right for making me look a fool over that Geneva business. And besides, I can't stand uppishness, and I won't. I'm from the Five Towns, I am."

Upon which singular utterance the incident closed.

CHAPTER XII

		There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself. George Eliot