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The Awkward Age

BOOK FIFTH
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But she doesn't--she looks about three.
She simply looks a baby." "Oh Duchess, you're really too particular!" he retorted, feeling that, as the trodden worm will turn, anxiety itself may sometimes tend to wit.
She met him in her own way.

"I know what I mean.

My niece is a person _I_ call fresh.

It's warranted, as they say in the shops.

Besides," she went on, "if a married woman has been knocked about that's only a part of her condition.


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