Thank you very kindly, it is most gracious of you to say. However, I have already been a fifty-two year old bachelor, I do not hold out much hope of that. -Of course, that has been entirely my own fault, and not for lack of admirers, I mean to seek no sympathy!
[It's strange that he would even feel this, really. After all, the reason he never courted was because he just didn't care, but declaring his love for Grell seems like a contradiction, doesn't it? And yet, that sweet music fills his head like a far-off dream.]
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Thank you very kindly, it is most gracious of you to say. However, I have already been a fifty-two year old bachelor, I do not hold out much hope of that. -Of course, that has been entirely my own fault, and not for lack of admirers, I mean to seek no sympathy!
[It's strange that he would even feel this, really. After all, the reason he never courted was because he just didn't care, but declaring his love for Grell seems like a contradiction, doesn't it? And yet, that sweet music fills his head like a far-off dream.]