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Diana of the Crossways

CHAPTER XV
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Cease penning, little fool! She writes, "with some comprehension of the passion of love." I know her to be a stranger to the earliest cry.

So you see, dear, that utter ignorance is the mother of the Art.

Dialogues "occasionally pointed." She has a sister who may do better .-- But why was I not apprenticed to a serviceable profession or a trade?
I perceive now that a hanger-on of the market had no right to expect a happier fate than mine has been.' On the Nile, in the winter of the year, Diana met the Hon.

Percy Dacier.
He was introduced to her at Cairo by Redworth.

The two gentlemen had struck up a House of Commons acquaintanceship, and finding themselves bound for the same destination, had grown friendly.


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