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The Voyage Out

CHAPTER VI
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Her conclusion was that she would very much like to show her niece, if it were possible, how to live, or as she put it, how to be a reasonable person.

She thought that there must be something wrong in this confusion between politics and kissing politicians, and that an elder person ought to be able to help.
"I quite agree," she said, "that people are very interesting; only--" Rachel, putting her finger between the pages, looked up enquiringly.
"Only I think you ought to discriminate," she ended.

"It's a pity to be intimate with people who are--well, rather second-rate, like the Dalloways, and to find it out later." "But how does one know ?" Rachel asked.
"I really can't tell you," replied Helen candidly, after a moment's thought.

"You'll have to find out for yourself.

But try and--Why don't you call me Helen ?" she added.


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