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The Malady of the Century

CHAPTER II
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You could keep out of the way of the king's daughter.

Why can I not keep out of the way of the poor girl ?" "That means that the princess' rank is as much a hindrance to love as the poverty of the work-girl." "I swear to you, Wilhelm, that if I were as rich, or as independent as you, I would not think of a dowry.

But I am a poor devil.

If I were so unfortunate as to fall in love with a poor girl, I would try to get the better of the feeling.

I would say to myself, better endure a short time of unhappiness and disappointment than that she and I should be condemned through life to the keenest want, which, with prosaic certainty, would smother love." While Paul argued with such ardor and earnestness, he was thinking all the time of Fraulein Malvine Marker, the pretty girl with whom he had danced so often, and he fondled tenderly with his right hand the ribbon and cotillion order hidden under his waistcoat.


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