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The Odd Women

CHAPTER XXII
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I will go back and live there until Tuesday, and come away only at the last hour, so that no one will ever suspect where--I don't care how humbly I live when we are abroad.

I can have lodgings somewhere in the same town, or near, and you will come--' His hair disordered, his eyes wild, quivering throughout with excitement, he stood as if pondering possibilities.
'Shall I be a burden to you ?' she asked in a faint voice.

'Is the expense more than you--' 'No, no, no! How can you think of such a thing?
But it would be so much better if you could wait here until I--Oh, what a wretched thing to have to seem so cowardly to you! But the difficulties are so great, darling.

I shall be a perfect stranger in Bordeaux.

I don't even speak the language at all well.


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