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The Odd Women

CHAPTER XI
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Compared with you and Miss Haven I'm very weak and childish.' After drumming on the table for a moment, with wrinkled brows, Mildred made grave response.
'You must let _me_ tell the truth as well.

I think you're going to marry with altogether wrong ideas.

I think you'll do an injustice to Mr.Widdowson.You will marry him for a comfortable home--that's what it amounts to.

And you'll repent it bitterly some day--you'll repent.' Monica raised herself and stood apart.
'For one thing,' pursued Mildred, with nervous earnestness, 'he's too old.

Your habits and his won't suit.' 'He has assured me that I shall live exactly the kind of life I please.
And that will be what _he_ pleases.


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