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The Odd Women

CHAPTER X
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His concern with her was purely intellectual; she had no sensual attraction for him, but he longed to see further into her mind, to probe the sincerity of the motives she professed, to understand her mechanism, her process of growth.

Hitherto he had enjoyed no opportunity of studying this type.
For his cousin was a very different person; by habit he regarded her as old, whereas Miss Nunn, in spite of her thirty years, could not possibly be considered past youth.
He enjoyed her air of equality; she sat down with him as a male acquaintance might have done, and he felt sure that her behaviour would be the same under any circumstances.

He delighted in the frankness of her speech; it was doubtful whether she regarded any subject as improper for discussion between mature and serious people.

Part cause of this, perhaps, was her calm consciousness that she had not a beautiful face.

No, it was not beautiful; yet even at the first meeting it did not repel him.


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