| [The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf]@TWC D-Link bookThe Voyage Out CHAPTER V
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  "Who was Burke  ?"  "No?Well, then I shall make a point of sending you a copy.
  _The_ _Speech_ _on_ _the_ _French_ _Revolution_--_The_ _American_ _Rebellion_?Which shall it be, I wonder  ?" He noted something in his pocket-book.
 "And then you must write and tell me what you think of it.
  This reticence--this isolation--that's what's the matter with modern life! Now, tell me about yourself.  What are your interests and occupations?I should imagine that you were a person with very strong interests.
  Of course you are! Good God! When I think of the age we live in, with its opportunities and possibilities, the mass of things to be done and enjoyed--why haven't we ten lives instead of one?But about yourself  ?"  "You see, I'm a woman," said Rachel.
 "I know--I know," said Richard, throwing his head back, and drawing his fingers across his eyes.
 "How strange to be a woman! A young and beautiful woman," he continued sententiously, "has the whole world at her feet.
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