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The Awkward Age

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"There isn't a man but YOU whom Petherton wouldn't have made vulgar.

He isn't vulgar himself--at least not exceptionally; but he's just one of those people, a class one knows well, who are so fearfully, in this country, the cause of it in others.

For all I know he's the cause of it in me--the cause of it even in poor Edward.

For I'm vulgar, Mitchy dear--very often; and the marvel of you is that you never are." "Thank you for everything.

Thank you above all for 'marvel'!" Mitchy grinned.
"Oh I know what I say!"-- she didn't in the least blush.


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