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The Awkward Age

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It was all very well to tell you I'd start on my visit--but how the deuce was I to start without a penny in the world?
Don't you see that if you want me to go about you must really enter into my needs ?" "I wish to heaven you'd leave me--I wish to heaven you'd get out of the house," Mrs.Brookenham went on without looking up.
Harold took out his watch.

"Well, mamma, now I AM ready: I wasn't in the least before.

But it will be going forth, you know, quite to seek my fortune.

For do you really think--I must have from you what you do think--that it will be all right for me ?" She fixed him at last with her pretty pathos.

"You mean for you to go to Brander ?" "You know," he answered with his manner as of letting her see her own attitude, "you know you try to make me do things you wouldn't at all do yourself.


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