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The Odd Women

CHAPTER IX
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My cousin Mary was staying at the house whilst I was there.

She had more reasonable views than Mrs.Goodall, but took a great interest in what was going on.
'Now one of the girls in process of spiritualization was called Amy Drake.

In the ordinary course of things I shouldn't have met her, but she served in a shop where I went two or three times to get a newspaper; we talked a little--with absolute propriety on my part, I assure you--and she knew that I was a friend of the Goodalls.

The girl had no parents, and she was on the point of going to London to live with a married sister.
'It happened that by the very train which took me back to London, when my visit was over, this girl also travelled, and alone.

I saw her at Upchurch Station, but we didn't speak, and I got into a smoking carriage.


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