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The Awkward Age

BOOK SIXTH
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He doesn't like them.

He doesn't even care for Tish." "He told you so--right out ?" "Oh," Nanda said, "of course I asked him.

I didn't press him, because I never do--!" "You never do ?" Mrs.Brook broke in as with the glimpse of a new light.
The girl showed an indulgence for this interest that was for a moment almost elderly.

"I enjoy awfully with him seeing just how to take him." Her tone and her face evidently put forth for her companion at this juncture something freshly, even quite supremely suggestive; and yet the effect of them on Mrs.Brook's part was only a question so off-hand that it might already often have been asked.

The mother's eyes, to ask it, we may none the less add, attached themselves closely to the daughter's, and her face just glowed.


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