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The Primadonna

CHAPTER XIII
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You are Margaret Donne and you are Cordova.

I admire Cordova immensely, I am extremely fond of Margaret, and I'm in love with both.
Oh yes! I'm quite frank about it, and it's very unlucky, for whichever one of your two selves I meet I'm just as much in love as ever! Absurd, isn't it ?' 'It's flattering, at all events.' 'If you ever took it into your handsome head to marry me--please, I'm only saying "if"-- the absurdity would be rather reassuring, wouldn't it?
When a man is in love with two women at the same time, it really is a little unlikely that he should fall in love with a third!' 'Mr.Griggs says that marriage is a drama which only succeeds if people preserve the unities!' 'Griggs is always trying to coax the Djin back into the bottle, like the fisherman in the _Arabian Nights_,' answered Logotheti.

'He has read Kant till he believes that the greatest things in the world can be squeezed into a formula of ten words, or nailed up amongst the Categories like a dead owl over a stable door.

My intelligence, such as it is, abhors definitions!' 'So do I.I never understand them.' 'Besides, you can only define what you know from past experience and can reflect upon coolly, and that is not my position, nor yours either.' Margaret nodded, but said nothing and sat down.
'Do you want to smoke ?' she asked.

'You may, if you like.


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