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The Odd Women

CHAPTER XXV
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Have you bathed ?' 'Once or twice.' 'I had a swim this morning before breakfast, in pouring rain.

Now _you_ can't swim.' 'No.

I can't.

But why were you sure about it ?' 'Only because it's so rare for any girl to learn swimming.

A man who can't swim is only half the man he might be, and to a woman I should think it must be of even more benefit.


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