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flattered to imagine a note of jealousy in her veto -- but it fretted me to see so little getting done in the way of Peter Greene's education. For that reason I was receptive to Dr. Sear's next suggestion despite the prurience of his tone, which the intercom did not conceal.
"About this goat-Business, George: you want some sort of voucher from me that you're strictly human, is that it?"
"Ithink that's what I want," I said. "My Assignment saysOvercome Your Infirmity, and it might just be that --"
"Conscious depravity," Dr. Sear said crisply. I begged his pardon.
"Conscious depravity," he repeated. "What could be humaner?" I believed he must be alluding -- with a tisk of the tongue, as it were -- to the behavior of his wife, who now besides waving her brittle posteriors was nibbling a memorandum-pad between bleats, and winking lewdly. But he went on to ask, rhetorically, when a goat, or any other animal thanHomo sapiens, had ever done a flunkèd deed from simple relish of its flunkèdness. If in the history of studentdom, he maintained by way of illustration, a goat had ever humped a lady girl (as Halicarnassides records in his oldHistories, for instance),