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The Awkward Age

BOOK TENTH
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I was very small, but I COULD see it.
You'll say I must have been a most uncanny little wretch, and I dare say I was and am keeping now the pleasant promise.

That doesn't prevent one's feeling that when a person has brought a person out--" "A person should take the consequences," Vanderbank broke in, "and see a person through ?" He could meet her now perfectly and proceeded admirably to do it.

"There's an immense deal in that, I admit--I admit.

I'm bound to say I don't know quite what I did--one does those things, no doubt, with a fine unconsciousness: I should have thought indeed it was the other way round.

But I assure you I accept all consequences and all responsibilities.


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