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The Odd Women

CHAPTER XVII
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The chances are I should only lose myself in an inferno.' 'Doesn't it strike you that you take an advantage of me, as you did once before?
I make no pretence of equalling you in muscular strength, yet you try to hold me by force.' He divined in her pleasure akin to his own, the delight of conflict.
Otherwise, she would never have spoken thus.
'Yes, it is true.

Love revives the barbarian; it wouldn't mean much if it didn't.

In this one respect I suppose no man, however civilized, would wish the woman he loves to be his equal.

Marriage by capture can't quite be done away with.

You say you have not the least love for me; if you had, should I like you to confess it instantly?
A man must plead and woo; but there are different ways.


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