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Born in Exile

CHAPTER IV
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I live in lodgings, you know; my sister lives with friends.

Of course one has a sense of freedom, but then'-- His voice murmured off into silence, and again he beat the ground with his cane.

Godwin was strongly interested in this broken revelation; he found it difficult to understand Moxey's yearning for domesticity, all his own impulses leading towards quite a contrary ideal.

To him, life in London lodgings made rich promise; that indeed would be freedom, and full of all manner of high possibilities! Each communed with his thoughts.

Happening to glance at Christian, Godwin was struck with the graceful attitude in which the young man reclined; he himself squatted awkwardly on the grass, unable to abandon himself in natural repose, even as he found it impossible to talk with the ease of unconsciousness.


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