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The Odd Women

CHAPTER XVI
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'There was that novel this morning.

Of course I know as well as you do that "Guy Mannering" is better; but that doesn't say I am not to form my opinion of other books.

You mustn't be afraid to leave me the same freedom you have yourself.' The result of it all was that Widdowson felt his passionate love glow with new fire.

For a moment he thought himself capable of accepting this change in their relations.

The marvellous thought of equality between man and wife, that gospel which in far-off days will refashion the world, for an instant smote his imagination and exalted him above his native level.
Monica paid for the energy she had put forth by a day of suffering.


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