"
"I wish I might become one of them!"
"Do you fulfil the condition of undesirability?" asked Bridget.
"Anyhow, I am one of the unemployed," he answered. "You see, I have
been almost converted to opinions which cut away the ground from under
my own feet. I have lived so far a delightful life, and now my
conscience is beginning to nag me. The question is whether I am
enjoying myself at some poor wretches' continual expense."
"Why have you never married, Mr. Clynesworth?" asked Bridget.
"I have seen only one woman I could ever care to make my wife."
"Isn't one enough?"
"She is bound to be in this country," was the answer; "although we may
have to alter all that in order to get rid of our surplus!"
"Why haven't you married that one?"
"Well, I haven't asked her yet," said Jimmy. "Of course, I am going
to, but there are, I suppose, rules to be observed. Hitherto, to tell
you the truth, I have been a little frightened at the bare idea. One
has so many object lessons! I know a man who was married a week or so
ago. He was immensely fond of the girl, but I can swear she doesn't
care for him a rap.
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