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New Grub Street

CHAPTER XV
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If we go on here till we have no money--what's before us then?
Wretched lodgings at the best.

And I am afraid to think of that.

I can't trust myself if that should come to pass.' 'What do you mean ?' he asked anxiously.
'I hate poverty so.

It brings out all the worst things in me; you know I have told you that before, Edwin ?' 'But you would never forget that you are my wife ?' 'I hope not.

But--I can't think of it; I can't face it! That would be the very worst that can befall us, and we are going to try our utmost to escape from it.


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