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The Malady of the Century

CHAPTER XII
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If you want to shake me off, you will have to kill me first." "And yet you said you would not try to hold me back if I wished to leave you." "And you remembered those foolish words! While my heart was overflowing, you listened coolly and took note of everything, so that you might use it against me afterward.

I really did not think you were so noble, so generous minded, as that." "You see that you were mistaken in me.

I am narrow-minded, mean-spirited, a thorough Philistine; you have said so repeatedly.

What do you see in me to care for?
Let me go." "Oh, how you fix on every word and then turn it against me! I am not equal to you; you are stronger than I, because you do not love me and I love you.

What do I care if you are narrow-minded--a Philistine?
If you were a highway robber I would not let you go." She stretched out her arms to him and drew him to her, and pressed him so tightly to her bosom that he could hardly breathe.


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