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Diana of the Crossways

CHAPTER XXIV
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It wanted but that one drop to make a recurrence to the work impossible.
There it must lie! And what of the aspects of her household ?--Perhaps, after all, the Redworths of the world are right, and Literature as a profession is a delusive pursuit.

She did not assent to it without hostility to the world's Redworths.--'They have no sensitiveness, we have too much.

We are made of bubbles that a wind will burst, and as the wind is always blowing, your practical Redworths have their crow of us.' She suggested advice to Arthur Rhodes upon the prudence of his resuming the yoke of the Law.
He laughed at such a notion, saying that he had some expectations of money to come.
'But I fear,' said he, 'that Lady Dunstane is very very ill.

She begged me to keep her informed of your address.' Diana told him he was one of those who should know it whithersoever she went.

She spoke impulsively, her sentiments of friendliness for the youth being temporarily brightened by the strangeness of Emma's conduct in deputing it to him to fulfil a duty she had never omitted.


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