[A Daughter of To-Day by Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes)]@TWC D-Link book
A Daughter of To-Day

CHAPTER XXVIII
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One thing with your lips and another thing with your eyes--and ways of doing.

You tell me that I, must go, but you make it possible for me to stay.

For God's sake let it be one or the other." "I am so sorry.

We could be friends of a sort, I think, but I can't marry you." "You have never told me why." "Shall I tell you truly, literally--brutally ?" "Of course!" "Then it is not only because I don't love you--that there is not for me the common temptation to enter a form of bondage which, as I see it, is hateful.

That is enough, but it is not all; it is not even the principal thing.
It is"-- she hesitated--"it is that--that we are different, you and I.It would-be preposterous," she went on hastily, "not to admit that you are infinitely superior--of course--and cleverer and wiser and more important in the world.


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