"
"O, it is that, is it?" said Lord Fordham; "I thought she wanted to
pique Allen, she was so empressee with me."
"If people will be so foolish as to care for a pretty face," sagely
said Sydney.
"You know it is not only that," said Babie; "Allen is bound in honour
to marry Elvira, to repair the great injustice. It is a great pity
she will not marry him now at once, but I think she is afraid,
because then, you know, she would get to have a soul, like Undine,
and she doesn't want one yet."
"That's a new view of the case," said Lord Fordham in his peculiar
lazy manner, "and taken allegorically it may be the true one."
"But one would like to have a soul," said Sydney.
"I'm not sure," said Babie, with a great look of awe. "One would
know it was best, but it would be very tremendous to feel all sorts
of thoughts and perceptions swelling up in one."
"If that is the soul," said Armine.
"Which is the soul?" said Babie, "our understanding, or our feelings,
or both?"
"Both," said Sydney, undoubtingly.
"I don't know," said Babie. "Poor little Chico has double the heart
of his mistress."
"It is quite true," said Fordham. "We may share intellect with
demons, but we do share what is called heart with animals."
"I think good animals have a sort of soul," observed Armine.
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