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Diana of the Crossways

CHAPTER V
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Well, and I love beauty, I love simplicity.

All that will be destroyed by the refuse of the towns flooding the land--barring accidents, as Lukin says.
There seems nothing else to save us.' Redworth acquiesced.

'Nothing.' 'And you do not regret it ?' he was asked.
'Not a bit.

We have already exchanged opinions on the subject.
Simplicity must go, and the townsman meet his equal in the countryman.
As for beauty, I would sacrifice that to circulate gumption.

A bushelful of nonsense is talked pro and con: it always is at an innovation.


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