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The City of Delight

CHAPTER XVI
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The siege hath put an end to your efforts in your own behalf and it is time to face your condition and make the best of it.

John feels restive; I dare not ask too much of him.

My household was already full, before you came." Laodice was looking at her, now with enlightenment in her face.
"Philadelphus," Amaryllis continued, following up her advantage, "is nothing more than a man and you are very lovely." "All this," Laodice said, rousing, "is to persuade me to--" "There are two standards for women," the Greek interposed before Laodice finished her indignant sentence.

"Yours and another's.

As between yours, who would have love from him whom you have married, and hers, who hath love from him whom she hath not married, there is only the difference of a formula.


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