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The Voyage Out

CHAPTER XXIV
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"They give a great deal to their children." As she said this she smiled slightly in the direction of Susan and Rachel.

They did not like to be included in the same lot, but they both smiled a little self-consciously, and Arthur and Terence glanced at each other too.

She made them feel that they were all in the same boat together, and they looked at the women they were going to marry and compared them.

It was inexplicable how any one could wish to marry Rachel, incredible that any one should be ready to spend his life with Susan; but singular though the other's taste must be, they bore each other no ill-will on account of it; indeed, they liked each other rather the better for the eccentricity of their choice.
"I really must congratulate you," Susan remarked, as she leant across the table for the jam.
There seemed to be no foundation for St.John's gossip about Arthur and Susan.

Sunburnt and vigorous they sat side by side, with their racquets across their knees, not saying much but smiling slightly all the time.
Through the thin white clothes which they wore, it was possible to see the lines of their bodies and legs, the beautiful curves of their muscles, his leanness and her flesh, and it was natural to think of the firm-fleshed sturdy children that would be theirs.


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