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The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig

CHAPTER XV
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Now, you--you've got an ostrich stomach.
I've seen you quite pleased with women I'd not lay my finger on.

Yet most people'd say you were more sensitive than I.Instead, you're much coarser--except about piffling, piddling, paltry non-essentials.

You strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.

I shouldn't be a bit surprised if Margaret had penetrated the fact that your coarseness is in-bred while mine is near surface.

Women have a surprising way of getting at the bottom of things.


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