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The Voyage Out

CHAPTER XIII
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You read French?
You should read Balzac.

Then we come to Wordsworth and Coleridge, Pope, Johnson, Addison, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats.

One thing leads to another.

Why is Marlowe here?
Mrs.Chailey, I presume.

But what's the use of reading if you don't read Greek?
After all, if you read Greek, you need never read anything else, pure waste of time--pure waste of time," thus speaking half to himself, with quick movements of his hands; they had come round again to the circle of books on the floor, and their progress was stopped.
"Well," he demanded, "which shall it be ?" "Balzac," said Rachel, "or have you the _Speech_ _on_ _the_ _American_ _Revolution_, Uncle Ridley ?" "_The_ _Speech_ _on_ _the_ _American_ _Revolution_ ?" he asked.


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