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The Voyage Out

CHAPTER XIX
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"And then she took to breeding guinea-pigs for their spots, and became absorbed in that.

I have just heard that the yellow guinea-pig has had a black baby.
We had a bet of sixpence on about it.

She will be very triumphant." The skirt was fastened.

She looked at herself in the glass with the curious stiffening of her face generally caused by looking in the glass.
"Am I in a fit state to encounter my fellow-beings ?" she asked.

"I forget which way it is--but they find black animals very rarely have coloured babies--it may be the other way round.


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