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The Odd Women

CHAPTER V
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Two deep wrinkles, rippling in their course, had formed across his forehead, and his eyes widened in a gaze of complete abstraction at the farther shore.
'Yes,' fell from him at length, as though in continuation of something he had been saying, 'I began to earn my bread when I was fourteen.

My father was an auctioneer at Brighton.

A few years after his marriage he had a bad illness, which left him completely deaf.

His partnership with another man was dissolved, and as things went worse and worse with him, my mother started a lodging-house, which somehow supported us for a long time.

She was a sensible, good, and brave woman.


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