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The Odd Women

CHAPTER XVII
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Besides, in that case the person decidedly isn't suitable to you.

You of all men must marry a lady.' 'I should never think of any one that wasn't a lady.' 'Is emancipation getting as far as that?
Do ladies enter into that kind of union ?' 'I don't know of any example.

That's just why the idea tempts me.' Barfoot would go no further in explanation.
'How about your new algebra ?' 'Alas! My dear boy, the temptation is so frightful--when I get back home.

Remember that I have never known what it was to sit and talk through the evening with ordinary friends, let alone--It's too much for me just yet.

And, you know, I don't venture to work on Sundays.


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