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"Why, I sacrifice you, simply, to everything and to every one. I take the consequences of your marriage as perfectly natural." He threw back his head a little, settling with one hand his eyeglass. "What do you call, my dear, the consequences?" "Your life as your marriage has made it." "Well, hasn't it made it exactly what we wanted?" She just hesitated, then felt herself steady—oh, beyond what she had dreamed. "Exactly what I wanted—yes." His eyes, through his straightened glasses, were still on hers, and he might, with his intenser fixed smile, have been knowing she was, for herself, rightly inspired. "What do you make then of what I wanted?" "I don't make anything, any more than of what you've got. That's exactly the point. I don't put myself out to do so—I never have; I take from y