Your desire for a chaperone as much as implies that I am that sort of creature.

I prefer to be good because it is good to be good, rather than because I can't be bad because some argus-eyed old frump won't let me have a chance to be bad." "But it--it is not that," he put in.

"It is what others will think." "Let them think, the nasty-minded wretches! It is because men like you are afraid of the nasty-minded that you allow their opinions to rule you." "I am afraid you are a female Shelley," he replied; "and as such, you really drive me to become your partner in order to protect you." "If you take me as a partner in order to protect me.

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