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The Awkward Age

BOOK EIGHTH
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I'm just as simply thankful for mine--I mean with as little sense of indecency or agony about it--as I am for my health or my carriage.

My point is at any rate that I say in no cruel spirit of triumph, yet do none the less very distinctly say, that the person Mr.
Mitchett's marriage has inevitably pleased least may be now rather to be feared." These words had the sound of a climax, and she had brought them out as if, with her duty done, to leave them; but something that took place, for her eye, in the face Mr.Longdon had half-averted gave her after an instant what he might have called her second wind.

"Oh I know you think she always HAS been! But you've exaggerated--as to that; and I don't say that even at present it's anything we shan't get the better of.

Only we must keep our heads.

We must remember that from her own point of view she has her grievance, and we must at least look as if we trusted her.


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