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Her disbelief in his self-dissatisfaction delighted hi utterance to the

grounds of her disbelief

"I am happy, but dissatisfied with myself" he said

"Why, how can you be dissatisfied with yourself if you are

happy?"

"Well, how shall I say? In

whatever but that you should not stumble--see? Oh, but really

youoff to

scold her for too agile aover a branch that

lay in the path "But when I think about myself, and compare

myself with others, especially with my brother, I feel I'm a poor

creature"

"But in ay?" Kitty pursued with the same smile "Don't you

too work for others? What about your co-operative settlement,

and your work on the estate, and your book?"

"Oh, but I feel, and particularly just now--it's your fault," he

said, pressing her hand--"that all that doesn't count I do it