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The Odd Women

CHAPTER VII
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I should be much less than your friend if I did not desire for you a position very different from that which necessity forced upon you.

Thank you very much for the promise to tell me how you like the new employment and your new friends.

Shall you not henceforth be at leisure on other days besides Sunday?
As you will now be near Regent's Park, perhaps I may hope to meet you there some evening before long.

I would go any distance to see you and speak with you for only a few minutes.
'Do forgive my impertinence, and believe me, dear Miss Madden.-- Ever yours, EDMUND WIDDOWSON.' Now this undoubtedly might be considered a love-letter, and it was the first of its kind that Monica had ever received.

No man had ever written to her that he was willing to go 'any distance' for the reward of looking on her face.


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