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The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton

CHAPTER XXIII
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Just in time I took one of my beans and became myself again, but Edith, I have only two more.

When they are gone there is an end of me.

That is why I sit here by your side at this moment and feel myself a condemned man.

I think that when I feel the change coming I shall throw myself over into the river.

I could not bear the other life again!" "Absurd!" she declared.
"If I believed," he went on, "that I could carry with me across that curious boundary enough of decency, enough of my present feelings, to keep us wholly apart, I would be happier.


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