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The Short Works of George Meredith

CHAPTER VI
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I know I never mean harm.

But how are we women expected to behave, then?
Oh, I'm unhappy, I am.' 'You must abstain from playing.' 'It's that! I've lost my money--I forgot.

And I shall have to confess it to my duke, though he warned me.

Old men hold their fingers up--so! One finger: and you never forget the sight of it, never.

It's a round finger, like the handle of a jug, and won't point at you when they're lecturing, and the skin's like an old coat on gaffer's shoulders--or, Chloe! just like, when you look at the nail, a rumpled counterpane up to the face of a corpse.


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