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The Odd Women

CHAPTER XVII
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But I _should_ like her to see what is meant by perception and conception, by the relativity of time and space--and a few simple things of that kind!' Barfoot laughed heartily.
'By-the-bye,' he said, shifting to safer ground, 'my brother Tom is in London, and in wretched health.

_His_ angel is from the wrong quarter, from the nethermost pit.

I seriously believe that she has a plan for killing her husband.

You remember my mentioning in a letter his horse-accident?
He has never recovered from that, and as likely as not never will.

His wife brought him away from Madeira just when he ought to have stopped there to get well.


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