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You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal." Lucy began to cry with anger, and though her anger passed away soon, her tears remained. "I only wish poets would say this, too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul! Your soul, dear Lucy! I hate the word now, because of all the cant with which superstition has wrapped it round. But we have souls. I cannot say how they came nor whither they go, but we have them, and I see you ruining yours. I cannot bear it. It is again the darkness creeping in; it is hell." Then he checked himself. "What nonsense I have talked--how abstract and remote! And I have made you cry! Dear girl, forgive my prosiness; marry my boy. When I think what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love--Marry
him; it is one of the moments for which the world was made." She could not understand him; the words were indeed remote. Yet as he spoke the darkness was withdrawn, veil after veil, and she saw to the bottom of her soul. "Then, Lucy--" "You've frightened me," she moaned. "Cecil--Mr. Beebe--the ticket's bought--everything." She fell sobbing into the chair. "I'm caught in the tangle. I must suffer and grow old away from him. I cannot break the whole of life for his sake. They trusted me." A carriage drew up at the front-door. "Give George my love--once only. Tell him 'muddle.'" Then she arranged her veil, while the tears poured over her cheeks inside. "Lucy--"
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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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exuded tolerance from every pore; s
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was on Cecil that the little episod
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after his education, distinguish be
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weakness of men was a truth unfamil
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"How are my proteges?" asked Cecil,
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"Not very dutiful," said her mother
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matter?" But Sunday intervened and
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ather a nuisance all through the te
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Lucy recollected herself. "'Sunset.
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"It is so. I will inflict Joseph Em
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to those hills." He pointed with hi
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Emerson thinks us frivolous, he can
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Lest Cecil should see her face she
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Chapter XVI: Lying to George But Lu
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make love. Do you know about that?"
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Why does any one tell anything? The
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to help me. That's why I've sent fo
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the garden with a tennis ball in hi
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entered he stopped, and said: "No--
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talk. He should know no one intimat
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Lucy thought of a very good remark.
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dark, and I am going back into it,
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was strong--seized her, and she was
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Chapter XVII: Lying to Cecil He was
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ight"--for she had exclaimed indign
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They have to-day. I see clearly. I
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"You don't love me, evidently. I da
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He repeated: "'The sort that can kn
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suggested that there was. I only me
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George had gone away into--what was
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Chapter XVIII: Lying to Mr. Beebe,
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go any further than Athens, but if
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Cecil said, "Yes," while Freddy edg
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eing clever, upon my word I am not-
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day, and the wind had taken and bro
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"Yes, Charlotte, I don't want you--
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"No, I didn't suppose you would car
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armies of darkness. "And Freddy min
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Page 433 and 434: dropped her evasive manner. "Why Gr
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Page 439 and 440: "All right, dear," said Mrs. Honeyc
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Page 463 and 464: "But Mr. Eager--he came when I was
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Page 469 and 470: "Thank you." At that moment Mr. Bee
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Page 485 and 486: George told him that he was mistake
Page 487 and 488: "Perhaps." Then he said more gently
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