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What do you want me to do less ?" "I want you to believe that you're a very fortunate person." "Do you call that LESS ?" Charlotte asked with a smile.
"From the point of view of my freedom I call it more.
Let it take, my position, any name you like." "Don't let it, at any rate"-- and Mrs.Assingham's impatience prevailed at last over her presence of mind--"don't let it make you think too much of your freedom." "I don't know what you call too much--for how can I not see it as it is? You'd see your own quickly enough if the Colonel gave you the same liberty--and I haven't to tell you, with your so much greater knowledge of everything, what it is that gives such liberty most.
For yourself personally of course," Charlotte went on, "you only know the state of neither needing it nor missing it.
Your husband doesn't treat you as of less importance to him than some other woman." "Ah, don't talk to me of other women!" Fanny now overtly panted.
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