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Diana of the Crossways

CHAPTER XVIII
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She ought to be pushed, wherever she is received about London, while the season is warm.
One season will suffice to establish her.

She is pretty, near upon six and twenty: foolish, of course:--she pays for having had a romantic head.

Heavy payment, Emmy! I drive at laws, but hers is an instance of the creatures wanting simple human kindness.' 'The good law will come with a better civilization; but before society can be civilized it has to be debarbarized,' Emma remarked, and Diana sighed over the task and the truism.
I should have said in younger days, because it will not look plainly on our nature and try to reconcile it with our conditions.

But now I see that the sin is cowardice.

The more I know of the world the more clearly I perceive that its top and bottom sin is cowardice, physically and morally alike.


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