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The Whirlpool

CHAPTER 11
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How many people would like such a life, but haven't the courage to live it!' 'Where shall it be, Alma ?' 'I have given no promise.

I only say this is the life that IJ should like.

Perhaps you would soon weary of it ?' 'I?
Not easily, I think.' 'There might be travel, too,' she went on fervently.

'We should be rich, when other people, living in the ordinary vulgar way, would have nothing to spare.

No tours where the crowd goes; real travel in out-of-the-way parts.' 'You are describing just what I should choose for myself; but I shouldn't have dared to ask it of you.
'And why?
I told you that you knew so little of me.


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