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The Awkward Age

BOOK SIXTH
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I don't want my back to be best--I don't walk backward." "Yes," Mrs.Brook resignedly mused; "you dress for yourself." "Oh how can you say that," the girl asked, "when I never stick in a pin but what I think of YOU!" "Well," Mrs.Brook moralised, "one must always, I consider, think, as a sort of point de repere, of some one good person.

Only it's best if it's a person one's afraid of.

You do very well, but I'm not enough.

What one really requires is a kind of salutary terror.

I never stick in a pin without thinking of your Cousin Jane.


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