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Red Pottage

CHAPTER XXII
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I knew you would like to meet her again because you are philanthropic, too.

She hardly thought she could spare the time to come, but she thought she would go back fresher if the wail were out of her ears for a week.

The wail! Isn't it dreadful?
I feel we ought to do more than we do, don't you ?" "We ought, indeed." "But then, you see, as a married woman, I can't leave my husband and child and bury myself in the East End, can I ?" "Of course not.

But surely it is an understood thing that marriage exempts women from all impersonal duties." "Yes, that is just it.

How well you put it! But others could.


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