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For the social prestige which Selwyn's name had brought the firm, he had
patiently endured his personal dislike and contempt for the man after he
found he could do nothing with him in any way.
He had accepted Selwyn purely in the hope of social advantage, and with
the knowledge that Selwyn could have done much for him after business
hours; if not from friendship, at least from interest, or a lively sense
of benefits to come. For that reason he had invited him to participate
in the valuable Siowitha deal, supposing a man as comparatively poor as
Selwyn would not only jump at the opportunity, but also prove
sufficiently grateful later. And he had been amazed and disgusted at
Selwyn's attitude. But he had not supposed the man would sever his
connection with the firm if he, Neergard, went ahead on his own
responsibility. It astonished and irritated him; it meant, instead of
selfish or snobbish indifference to his own social ambitions, an enemy
to block his entrance into what he desired--the society of those made
notorious in the columns of the daily press.


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