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afterwards. As you say it is all too horrible, and it is no good talking." But to Cecil, now that he was about to lose her, she seemed each moment more desirable. He looked at her, instead of through her, for the first time since they were engaged. From a Leonardo she had become a living woman, with mysteries and forces of her own, with qualities that even eluded art. His brain recovered from the shock, and, in a burst of genuine devotion, he cried: "But I love you, and I did think you loved me!" "I did not," she said. "I thought I did at first. I am sorry, and ought to have refused you this last time, too." He began to walk up and down the room, and she grew more and more vexed at his dignified behaviour. She had counted on his being petty. It would have made things easier for her. By a cruel irony she was drawing out all that was finest in his disposition.
"You don't love me, evidently. I dare say you are right not to. But it would hurt a little less if I knew why." "Because"--a phrase came to her, and she accepted it--"you're the sort who can't know any one intimately." A horrified look came into his eyes. "I don't mean exactly that. But you will question me, though I beg you not to, and I must say something. It is that, more or less. When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me." Her voice swelled. "I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place! You despise my mother--I know you do--because she's conventional and bothers over puddings; but, oh goodness!"--she rose to
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A Room with a View Forster, E. M. (
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Chapter I: The Bertolini The Signor
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"No, no. You must have it." "I insi
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and sympathized with the new-comers
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egan to toy again with the meat tha
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didn't know that I knew you at Tunb
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all rose the voice of the clever la
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"Do you, by any chance, know the na
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differ. But his is a type one disag
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emember. He seems to see good in ev
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subjects agreeably, and they were,
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sometimes think." She proceeded no
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instead." The young man gazed down
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"How you do do everything," said Lu
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ising moon. Miss Bartlett, in her r
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Chapter II: In Santa Croce with No
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leaving the door unlocked, and on h
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"Tut, tut! Miss Lucy! I hope we sha
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"Buon giorno! Take the word of an o
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Miss Lavish was not disgusted, and
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thought she had never seen anything
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And in a moment she was away over t
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introduce dogs into the church--the
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mysterious virtue, which mothers al
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"Baedeker?" said Mr. Emerson. "I'm
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The chapel was already filled with
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and I, dear boy, will lie at peace
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curt, injured replies of his oppone
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otherhood of man..." Scraps of the
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men to hate one another in the name
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"What things?" "The things of the u
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impressed him and that he was thank
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Chapter III: Music, Violets, and th
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Lavish looking for her cigarette-ca
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"My sermon?" cried Mr. Beebe. "Why
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idge was dirty grey, and the hills
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to have run away with Baedeker that
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one woman. "I could hear your beaut
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"A good fellow, Lavish, but I wish
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"All the same, she is a little too-
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unluckily, Mr. Emerson overheard th
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nice, Miss Alan, after that busines
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Mr. Beebe rather felt that they had
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"and she knows it. I put it down to
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medieval lady. The dragons have gon
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extended uncritical approval to eve
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chest. He frowned; he bent towards
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fountain--they had never ceased--ra
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tower had lost the reflection of th
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making conversation I was wondering
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silly people are gossiping--ladies
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"I shall want to live, I say." Lean
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encountered it. This solitude oppre
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and odd, the kind of thing one coul
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She marched cheerfully to the fount
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that a tragedy such as yesterday's
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most beautiful--far better than the
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of purity. Andate via! andate prest
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the subject strangely pure. "He die
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Under the chaplain's guidance they
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"He is not; he made an advantageous
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"You have said very little." "It wa
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Miss Bartlett thanked him for his k
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another--were these the daily incid
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from her brother, full of athletics
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solitude of Nature, might a hero me
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great favour, the goddess was allow
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To behave wildly at the sight of de
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"I quite agree," said Miss Lavish,
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only people enjoying the expedition
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them on the back to signify his app
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Lucy? "Signorina!" echoed Persephon
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account of his diminutive stature?"
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But it is not easy to carry the pic
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Miss Lavish did not seem pleased at
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"Lucy; without a moment's doubt, Lu
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Mr. Beebe, the smaller of the two g
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hills. "Eccolo!" he exclaimed. At t
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Chapter VII: They Return Some compl
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The thoughts of a cab-driver, howev
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not what exactly it signifies or ho
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might have been hurt. They chose to
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"In a book?" "Heroes--gods--the non
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Miss Alan asked her to play. She re
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"The driver?" "My dear girl, no; Mr
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"You see, Charlotte, your kindness-
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Miss Bartlett. "You will be seen fr
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"I expect she will. However, we sha
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"Charlotte dear, what do you mean?
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forgive me, and rightly. Fur instan
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worked like a great artist; for a t
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Lucy cried aloud: "It isn't true. I
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groaned, for the day was hot and th
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"Just listen to what I have written
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"I don't see you ought to go peepin
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not keep quiet. You know all that h
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kind of fellow who would never wear
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The curtains parted. Cecil's first
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They stared at him anxiously. "She
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mother." "We go with Lucy?" said Fr
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months later, on the margin of Ital
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civil, but obtuse in essentials, wh
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Flack!" "Has he indeed?" said Cecil
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His voice was rather parochial, but
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"Ah, he has too many. No one but hi
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the string breaks." The sketch was
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Occasionally he could be quite crud
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In her presence he could not act th
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to Cecil as the "Fiasco"--family ho
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with the dowagers. When they return
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his irritation was just. "How tires
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"We were speaking of motives," said
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he said had murdered his wife." "Pe
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He smiled. There was indeed somethi
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cross--the result, he concluded, of
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was to let. Three notice-boards, be
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about the Corinthian columns which
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"Rather a strenuous clerk it would
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gentlewomen at all. I know the type
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enjoyed these open compliments to t
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"It matters supremely. Sir Harry is
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She led the way into the whispering
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it, when Freddy was a purple-faced
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"Lucy!" "Yes, I suppose we ought to
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way. Why could he not do as any lab
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Chapter X: Cecil as a Humourist The
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tries to enter the pine-woods pouri
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"But they really are coming now," s
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Minnie, go for her--get her over th
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at last procured really dee-sire-re
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measure. "I trust they are the righ
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She might well "screech" when she h
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In his normal state Mr. Beebe would
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"Hullo!" he called, and leant out o
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lackguards--it was great sport--and
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Chapter XI: In Mrs. Vyse's Well-App
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murmured. "Oh, Cecil, I do, I do! I
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ehaviour to your mother, Freddy, an
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here. Please do not put 'Private' o
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She played Schumann. "Now some Beet
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possible. Cecil, mind you marry her
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Chapter XII: Twelfth Chapter It was
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"I fancy they know how to read--a r
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"Lucy used to be nearly as stupid a
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thinks the same." "We are to raise
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on you later on, my mother says, I
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as the motions of the tree-tops abo
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unhappy." Mr. Beebe slid away from
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"These abrupt changes of vegetation
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Mr. Beebe, who was hot, and who alw
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"No. We are what matters. Without u
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whooped in their faces, turned and
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are in no position to argue. Come,
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Chapter XIII: How Miss Bartlett's B
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egarded the teaching as profound, a
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"Not in that way. At times I could
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She remained in much embarrassment,
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"Oh, I wouldn't do that, Freddy, I
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She did not. She said: "Come here,
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come up and see us, and mercifully
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"So would I," asserted Freddy, back
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e, though so good. So please, mothe
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week, something would even happen t
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emain near him! Of course, the wish
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the London and Brighton station, an
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who had been ostentatiously drinkin
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don't see and I never shall see why
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of it from some other source." "Oh,
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"Shall we go out, then. They will s
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unexpectedly. It really does; it ma
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Chapter XV: The Disaster Within The
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Her eyes are bent to the Weald. She
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egions. "Minnie, don't be late. Her
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emained unspoken long, she burst ou
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determined to make this point clear
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"Well, I see the likeness. The same
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tenderness, said: "Very well, old l
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to the stables." "Lucy dearest--" "
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He held up his hand. "But you must
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go out of George's life saying he i
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"But Mr. Eager--he came when I was
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well, one must have failures. Georg
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George? No, it was wrong of George
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"Thank you." At that moment Mr. Bee
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"I--I had to." "Why, Miss Honeychur
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other man for his sake." "How dare
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him; it is one of the moments for w
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not love George. They have loved on
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"Now it is all dark. Now Beauty and
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Chapter XX: The End of the Middle A
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starting rheumatism next, and you s
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George told him that he was mistake
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"Perhaps." Then he said more gently
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he, "saw her, and I prefer his word
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always hoped. That from the very fi
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