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The Emancipated

CHAPTER VI
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How on earth did I get my individuality?
And you mustn't think that Miriam is just what she seems--I mean, there _are_ possibilities in her; I am convinced of it." "Did it ever occur to you that your own proceedings may have acted as a check upon those possibilities ?" "I don't know that I ever thought of it," said Elgar, ingenuously.
"You never reflected that her notion of the liberated man is yourself ?" "You are right, Mallard.

I see it.

What other example had she ?" They walked as far as Massa Lubrense, a little town on the steep shore; over against it the giant cliffs of Capri, every cleft and scar and jutting rock discernible through the pellucid air, every minutest ruggedness casting its clear-cut shadow.

But the surpassing glory was the prospect at the Cape of Sorrento when they reached it on their walk back.

Before them the entire sweep of the gulf, from Ischia to Capri; Naples in its utmost extent, an unbroken line of delicate pink, from Posillipo to Torre Annunziata.


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