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The Odd Women

CHAPTER XXII
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Monica, scarcely repressing a sob, the result of reaction from her fears and miseries, drew the hand away.

But again he took it.
'There's the glove on it,' he said in a shaking voice.

'What harm in my holding your glove?
Don't think of it, and talk to me.

I love music, but no music is like your voice.' 'You go on Monday ?' It was her lips spoke the sentence, not she.
'No, on Tuesday--I think.' 'My--Mr.Widdowson is going to take me away from London.' 'Away ?' She told him the circumstances.

Bevis kept his eyes upon her face, with a look of rapt adoration which turned at length to pain and woeful perplexity.
'You have been married a year,' he murmured.


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