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The Awkward Age

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"One doesn't quite know what they live on.
But they've means--for it was just that fact, I remember, that showed Brookenham's getting the place wasn't a job.

It was given, I mean, not to his mere domestic need, but to his notorious efficiency.

He has a property--an ugly little place in Gloucestershire--which they sometimes let.

His elder brother has the better one, but they make up an income." Mr.Longdon for an instant lost himself.

"Yes, I remember--one heard of those things at the time.


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