[The Unclassed by George Gissing]@TWC D-Link bookThe Unclassed CHAPTER XI 36/38
I will send it you to-morrow." "Why not bring it ?" "Better not.
I have a good deal of an unpleasant quality which people call pride, and I don't care to make myself uncomfortable unnecessarily." "You can't have more pride than I have.
Look." She held out her hands. "Will you be my friend, really my friend? You understand me ?" "I think I understand, but I doubt whether it is possible." "Everything is possible.
Will you shake hands with me, and, when you come to see me again, let us meet as if I were a modest girl, and you had got to know me in a respectable house, and not in the street at midnight ?" "You really wish it? You are not joking ?" "I am in sober earnest, and I wish it.
You won't refuse ?" "If I did I should refuse a great happiness." He took her hand and again released it. "And now look at the time," said she, pointing to a clock on the mantelpiece.
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