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The Duke’s Children

CHAPTER XX
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It is a sort of tenderness that is quite inefficacious.
He will become a prey, as I should have made him a prey.

But where is there another who will treat him so well ?" "I cannot bear to hear you speak of yourself in that way." "But it is true.

I know the sort of girl he should marry.

In the first place she should be two years younger, and four years fresher.
She should be able not only to like him and love him, but to worship him.

How well I can see her! She should have fair hair, and bright green-gray eyes, with the sweetest complexion, and the prettiest little dimples;--two inches shorter than me, and the delight of her life should be to hang with two hands on his arm.


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